Some Facts About BritainThe large, bearded spectre that haunts bedrooms in Glamis Castle, Scotland; Old Madame, the White Lady haunting Lew House in Tavistock, Devon; Joan o' the Wad (Joan the Wad), a female piskey (Cornish pixie), sometimes helpful and sometimes mischievious, around Polperro in Cornwall; a number of ghosts at Jamaica Inn on Bodmin Moor, including a murdered sailor who sits on an outside wall; ghostly hammering heard in the Blue Room of Glamis Castle, Scotland; the ghostly coach and headless horses seen before Christmas in Penryn, Cornwall (turn away, or the coachman may carry off your spirit); the skeletal horse ridden by Old Crockern at Crockern's Tor, Dartmoor; spectral medieval hunters seen in woods at Lustleigh Cleave, Devon; the sounds of spectral gamblers, forced to play for eternity as punishment for playing dice on the Sabbath, in Glamis Castle, Scotland; and phantoms of the Theatre Royal in York, including a Grey Lady and an actor who was killed in a duel, are among the ghosts, haunted places, folklore, myths and legends of Britain. Queen Mab wishes you a comfortable stay in your Llangoed Wales UK hotel. When you get the chance, stay in some of the famous, luxurious and/or historic hotels of your destinations. The Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Hong Kong, the Hotel del Coronado in San Diego, the Goldeneye Hotel (once the home of James Bond author Ian Fleming) in Jamaica's Oracabessa Bay, the Hotel Baur au Lac in Zurich, the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles, the Hotel Lisboa and its famous casino in Macau and the Queen Mary in Long Beach. are some of the world's most famous hotels. |