by afew
Tue Sep 15th, 2009 at 04:22:12 PM EST
So who finally went for a walk, last Friday, inside the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris?
Well, LEP, and Fran, and dvx and gk, and I was there too, and... (Memory of groups walking round over the past long weekend is unreliable due to circumstances, so if I missed anyone, just add in comments...)
Fine weather, but it's a strange and complicated place, easy to get lost in even with a map. But here are some pics that may help you if ever you go there!
A lot of graves are in need of repair:
And even rather a lot of repair...
But some of them are jolly:
There's an old-and-new mix:
And there can be plastic over the rust...
Weird stuff, all the same, here and there:
After Robertson and the Phantasmagoria, they just had to batten the Adams Family down:
But let's go cult and see LEP taking the obligatory photo of Jim Morrisson's grave:
And here's Chopin's grave, more moving to me than any other I saw, because of the attention paid to it, and the emotion of those who visit:
Chopin's cat drinks at the source of musical inspiration:
