I do likes cemetaries.

I chanced upon the Huguenot Cemetary in Dublin (Merrion Row) a couple of years ago. You can't go in, but it's mostly visible through the railings, as it is quite small.

Another interesting one is the "Coloured Cemetary" between Stevensville and Fort Erie in the Niagara Penninsula, Ontario. The majority of the graves are of Afro Americans who came across with the Underground Railroad but I think a few might be of those who were still slaves with the United Empire Loyalists who settled the area. There's a UEL cemetary in the same village. I have some pictures up on Flickr but Flickr seems to be currently unavailable.

From time to time the National Eisteddfod has a competition for grave stone inscriptions which can come up with some oddities in Wales. There's one gravestone in the Llanfyllin churchyard which is written in the Theban alphabet - curious!

Back in Canada, I've always enjoyed a visit to the burial plot at Pengelly's Landing, Rice Lake, Ontario (between Peterborough and Port Hope). Joseph Scriven , author of the words, "What a friend we have in Jesus", is buried there - and a finer view no corpse could ask for. It's a bit hard that his fiance is only noted as "Scriven's Sweetheart", considering that it is HER family plot. Scriven was, for a time, tutor to the Massey family a generation or two prior to the family producing Vincent Massey (Gov.Gen. of Canada at one point) and his brother Raymond (actor). Scriven "took tea" with my mother's family on Sundays apparently.

Yep. I likes graveyards, me.

sian