Slippery slope

Hi again,

Yesterday, before I almost went down the slippery slope at the cemetery, I had time to visit something interesting. We actually noticed it on our last visit but this time I had the camera with me.

They had two different areas where soldiers from the First and the Second World Wars were buried. There is one section for German soldiers and one for British, Australian (5) and New Zealand soldiers.

The ones from the First World War were mainly sailors from ships that went down in the North Sea and the ones from the Second World War were pilots that were shot down and then floated ashore in Sweden.

It fills you with the same sort of sadness when you see these graves as you get when you visit the ones in the north of France even though that is on a much bigger scale. I'll never forget when we visited the  Canadian War Cemetery near Dieppe some years ago with our youngest daughter. There was one white cross after another with names of young boys not more that 18 or 19 years old or even younger in some cases.  It was really an eye opener, especially for our daughter who was just about that age.

Remember that I said yesterday that we went to a coffee shop after our scary cemetery experience and had some goodies. Well, here is what we had among other things. It is  a very decorative shrimp sandwich and some places make them better that others. This particular coffee shop has been one of my favorites since I went to school. It is quite old, from 1901, and the interior is pretty much the same as I remember it.  My mother worked nearby and as a special treat she would take me there on my lunch break. I think I was a little spoiled!!