Some Facts About BritainThe demons, witches and piskeys (pixies) that torment travellers at Kenidjack near St Just, Cornwall; the wicked priest Dando who, on Sundays, still hunts with hounds along the Tamar River between Devon and Cornwall; how Sir Francis Drake, with other ghostly magicians, replay the creation, from Devil's Point in Plymouth, the storm that defeated the Spanish Armada; the eighteenth century landlord haunting the Goat Hotel in Bedgellert, Wales; the spectre of the 18th Century Reverend Cole, seen in the garden of the vicarage at Luxulyan, Cornwall; the Portuguese treasure ship sunk off Gunwalloe, Cornwall; the spectre of Mrs Baines, killed by her own watchman, in Penzance, Cornwall; the phantom drummer of Edinburgh Castle in Scotland; ghostly monks at Buckfastleigh Abbey, Devon; and the spectre of King Arthur that haunts his ruined birthplace, Tintagel Castle, are some of the folklore, haunted places, ghosts, myths and legends of Britain. Queen Mab wishes you a comfortable stay in your Little Witcombe England UK hotel. The famous and/or historic hotels of the world are major destinations in their own right. Hotel La Mamounia in Marrakesh (Marrakech), the Hotel Icon in Hong Kong, the Venetian Macao Resort Hotel in Macau, the Chelsea Hotel in New York, the beautiful and historic San Ysidro Ranch in Santa Barbara, the Villa D'Este on Lake Como and the Hotel Metropole in Hanoi. are among the classic or luxury hotels of the world. |