Queen Mab wishes you a comfortable stay in your Larne Northern Ireland UK hotel. The famous and/or historic hotels of the world are major destinations in their own right. The Norfolk Hotel in Nairobi, the Renaissance Suzhou Hotel in Suzhou China, Hotel La Mamounia in Marrakesh (Marrakech), the Goldeneye Hotel (once the home of James Bond author Ian Fleming) in Jamaica's Oracabessa Bay, the Fasano Hotel e Restaurante Rio in Rio de Janeiro, the Hotel Lisboa and its famous casino in Macau and the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles. are among the classic or luxury hotels of the world. Some Facts About BritainGhostly, pipe-smoking Beefeaters in the Byward Tower of the Tower of London; the skeletal horse ridden by Old Crockern at Crockern's Tor, Dartmoor; how Drake's Drum, preserved in Buckland Abbey, is heard when England is in danger; the spectral bear that terrified a sentry at the Martin Tower of the Tower of London; the cross-shaped bare earth on the grave of John Davies in the churchyard of Montgomery, Wales, fulfilling his prophecy and proving his innocence of the theft for which he was hanged; the ghost of Squire Hilliard that appears at an upstairs window, as well as other unexplained phenomena, at the Black House in Higher Brixham, Devon; the screams of Katherine Howard, begging for her life, still heard in Hampton Court Palace; the monster that lurks in a secret chamber of Glamis Castle, Scotland; the sound of bells, from a sunken ship, heard near Forrabury, Cornwall; and how Mordred mortally wounded King Arthur at Slaughterbridge, Cornwall, are among the ghosts, haunted places, folklore, myths and legends of Britain. |