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Queen Mab wishes you a comfortable stay in your Llanrug Wales UK hotel. The famous and/or historic hotels of the world are major destinations in their own right. The Peninsula Hotel in Hong Kong (featuring in the Clark Gable movie Soldier of Fortune), the Mandarin Oriental Macau, the Excelsior Hotel in Hong Kong near the famous noonday gun, the Shangri-La Hotel in Lhasa, the Norfolk Hotel in Nairobi, the Mount Nelson Hotel in Cape Town and the Waldorf Astoria Shanghai on the Bund. are among the historic, famous and/or luxurious of the international hotels. Some Facts About BritainThe spectre of Sir William Langhorne that harasses women in Charlton House, now a community centre, in London; the Lady in White who leaps up behind horse riders in Marazion, Cornwall; the spectre of King Arthur that haunts his ruined birthplace, Tintagel Castle; the Pool of the Black Hound near Dean Combe, Devon, where a phantom dog (actually a weaver named Knowles) is doomed to empty the pond with a leaky nutshell; how money paid by the Devil at the Tavistock Inn in Poundgate, Devon, turned into leaves after he left; the ghostly white dog of Cator Common on Dartmoor; the field at Fardel Hall, Devon, containing treasure guarded by a dark lady in silk; the phantom dwarf, trying to lead people to hidden treasure - or something worse - at Chudleigh Knighton, Devon; how Squire Cabell and his black hounds haunt the Abbots's Way on Dartmoor, Devon; and the ghostly harbinger of death that haunts Ashleigh Barton, Devon, are some of the folklore, haunted places, ghosts, myths and legends of Britain. |