Friday, July 17, 2009

Cemeteries Around the World

Dennis and I are very good travel companions. On our very first trip, a wonderful week spent in Bermuda, we discovered that we both loved visiting cemeteries. Sometimes the cemeteries contain headstones that are fun to read. I remember a headstone in Scotland that rambled on about a man who deserved to die from the drink that killed him. We have stumbled upon cemeteries where everyone is buried above ground because the town existed below sea level. Hours have been spent reading and revering our fore-fathers in Boston.

In Ireland, the Celtic Cross dominated every cemetery we visited. Often, the nature of a cemetery made it impossible for Dennis to get a close look. He viewed the stones through the pictures that I took. I hope you enjoy viewing a few of them as much as we did.

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These crosses were in a large cemetery in Kilkenny.

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This one, while not Celtic, is very famous. It is St. Kevin's Cross. It is said that five visits to this site equals one visit to Mecca. At least that is what the literature stated.

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Until later,
Ann and Dennis
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1 comment:

vivi3 said...

Ann and Dennis..So I am not the only "morbid one".. I LOVE to visit cemeteries too. I like walking slowly among the markers and reading some of them..and thinking that we all go thru life in more or less the same way..one way or another. Some of the stones have beautiful pictures or engravings..some of them have toys around them because the person in the grave is a child or a grandparent..and on and on. YOU KNOW..you do it,too..

Hugs from Sweden where we have the viking mounds!!! Your/iva/humlan

July 26, 2009 at 4:45 PM

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