ok... this is a big odd perhaps.. but as it's a gray Monday lets go with it...
...
Mrs. and I went to visit Richard Burton yesterday... admittedly he didn't talk much but it was a nice lil visit just the same...

This however got me thinking... Who else is famous AND dead here?
( here being Switzerland, not EF )

opening hours

Canton Geneva

Richard Burton, British actor: (d 1984) Celigny
Alistair MacLean, British author: (d 1987) Celigny
Jorge Luis Borges, Argentinian author: (d 1986) Plainpalais Cemetery Geneva
Jean Calvin, French reformer: (d 1564) Plainpalais Cemetery Geneva
Sir Humphrey Davy, British scientist: (d 1829) Plainpalais Cemetery Geneva

Canton Vaud

David Niven, British actor: (d 1983) Chateau d’Oex
Vladimir Nabokov, Russian author: (d 1977) Clarens
Charlie Chaplin, British actor: (d 1977) Corsier-sur-Vevey
Graham Greene, British author: (d 1991) Corsier-sur-Vevey
James Mason, British actor: (d 1984) Corsier-sur-Vevey
Coco Chanel, French designer: (d 1971) Bois-de-Vaux Cemetery Lausanne
Pierre de Coubertin, French Olympic founder: (d 1937) Bois-de-Vaux Cemetery Lausanne
Peter Ustinov, British actor: (d 2004) Nyon
Henri Nestlé, German industrialist: (d 1890) Territet
Audrey Hepburn, Belgian actress: (d 1993) Tolochenaz
James Hadley Chase, British author: (d 1985) Vevey

Ticino

Robert Palmer, British singer: (d 2003) Lugano
Hermann Hesse, German author: (d 1962) Montagnola
Erich Maria Remarque, German author: (d 1970) Ronco sopra Ascona
Paulette Goddard, American actress: (d 1990) Ronco sopra Ascona
Patricia Highsmith, American author: (d 1995) Tegna

German-speaking Switzerland

Erasmus, Dutch thinker: (d 1536) Basel Cathedral
Meret Oppenheim, German artist: (d 1985) Birsfelden Cemetery Basel
Thomas Mann, German author: (d 1955) Kilchberg Cemetery Fluntern
James Joyce, Irish author: (d 1961) Fluntern Cemetery Zurich
Elias Canetti, German author: (d 1994) Fluntern Cemetery Zurich
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, German singer: (d 2006) Zumikon Cemetery Zurich

James Joyce

bah... J_T was quicker by seconds...

n.b. --- Alistair MacLean has a nice little spot ( in a very creepy cemetary ) just across from Sir Richard

ok... who's up for a Halloween EF Grave Tour?

*cough* weirdo *cough, cough*

you should have that cough looked at LiB ...otherwise you might be on the tour.

So many stories to tell, so many moonless nights deep in the forest with a shovel and mud on my boots. An integral part of this business is discretion.

Me me me!!!

I love cementeries. The older the better



Ok im weird....

I think it's a wonderful way to spend Halloween - seriously - count me in

Ok, I'll join you all if we can naked and sacrifice a small goat....I'll bring the liquor..grynch got the lube.
(now, that's what I call weird...)

if anyone can pull something together in the next couple of weeks I'd be interested.. but as I myself will be away from this friday until 25october I'd have trouble planning

ferris?????????

LiB.. you are getting so old and forgetful son.. don't you remember you used all the Lube... and the goat last time.





now what we need is a virgin !! ... ( where is Bertrand ? ) ...

THAT was lube?!

LiB.. I know you asked for this pic not to be published.. but it's time...

LiB and his date......

This is EF dude, you are seriously SOL for that one. The average here is plus forty something with a string of affairs, kids, mortgages and more personal problems than Richard Burton ever had with Liz.

"And slowly, but surely, they drew their plans against us......"

Don`t judge us by your own standards.

Spending Halloween at a cemetery sounds lovely.

It seems they prefer to die in the Suisse Romand. The cemeteries of Corsier-sur-Vevey and Lausanne get a visit from me soon.

Freddie Mercury

(ashes scattered over lake Geneva)

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg...e=gr&GRid=2164