bones – MacKat in Ireland http://ireland.markciecior.com Irish Adventures 'R' Us Fri, 29 Nov 2024 05:19:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 Cemetery Number Duex http://ireland.markciecior.com/?p=241 http://ireland.markciecior.com/?p=241#respond Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:45:19 +0000 http://ireland.markciecior.com/?p=241 Some book we read said that it was worth our time to see the Pere Lachaise cemetery.  It was sort of on our way back to the hotel so we stopped by.  It’s very similar to the cemeteries in New Orleans (or maybe vice versa) in that everything is above ground.  It looks like families will buy one of these above-ground tombs and then the ashes of their descendants get placed inside.

This place was huge.  We went on a mission strictly to find Jim Morrison’s grave (he died in Paris), didn’t find it, and we still spent almost an hour there.  Maybe that’s why they were selling maps at the entrance…

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