In Puducherry (Pondicherry) in January, the top of my list of places to visit was the old French cemetery. We had a difficult time finding it. No one we asked…
High on my list when visiting Fort Kochi, was to pay my respects at the old Dutch Cemetery. It dates to 1724 and is one of the country’s oldest European…
Visiting Munnar, I was keen to find the grave of Eleanor Isabel May Knight, whose 1894 grave predates the cemetery in which it lies, the cemetery in turn predating the…
While spending a few days in Ooty, a hill station in the Nilgiris in the Western Ghats, we drove over to Coonoor in search of Tiger Hill Cemetery, an old…
Robyn Flemming, the author of Skinful: A Memoir of Addiction, is very much alive and well and currently in Malaysia. In this, the third of three guest posts (GPs), Robyn…
Robyn Flemming, the author of Skinful: A Memoir of Addiction, is very much alive and well and currently in Malaysia. In this, the second of three guest posts (GPs), Robyn…
Robyn Flemming, the author of Skinful: A Memoir of Addiction, is very much alive and well and currently in Malaysia. In this, the first of three guest posts (GPs), Robyn…
Back in 1943, the building of the Burma Railway, aka the Death Railway, took the lives of about 90 000 civilian labourers (rÅmusha) and more than 12 000 Allied POWs.…
We’d come west to Kanchanaburi to learn about the Burma Death Railway and to pay our respects to those prisoners of war who had died building it by visiting the…
Noting the marked scarcity of cemeteries as we travelled around Thailand, I did some research. I checked the demographics. According to the latest available census data, approximately 94.6 percent of…
