Some Facts About BritainPhantoms of the Theatre Royal in York, including a Grey Lady and an actor who was killed in a duel; how Drake's Drum, preserved in Buckland Abbey, is heard when England is in danger; the black page boy whose ghost haunts Glamis Castle in Scotland; the sound of bells, from a sunken ship, heard near Forrabury, Cornwall; the sounds of spectral gamblers, forced to play for eternity as punishment for playing dice on the Sabbath, in Glamis Castle, Scotland; the corpse-eating kergrim in the churchyard of Launceston, Cornwall; Lyonesse, the fabled land that once joined Land's End to the Isles of Scilly; 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; how, off St Ives in Cornwall, the ship Neptune sank after seeing a ghost ship, becoming another ghost ship; and the ghost of a Crusader, Ranulph, in the moat of Blanchminster Castle, Cornwall, are among the ghosts, haunted places, folklore, myths and legends of Britain. Queen Mab wishes you a comfortable stay in your Lochend Scotland UK hotel. The famous and/or historic hotels of the world are major destinations in their own right. The Sofitel Rio de Janeiro Copacabana, Christian's Hotel in Luoyang China, Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Cap d'Antibes, the Palace of the Lost City at Sun City in South Africa, the Excelsior Hotel in Hong Kong near the famous noonday gun, the Hotel Metropole in Hanoi and the Peace Hotel (formerly the renowned Cathay Hotel) in Shanghai. are some of the world's most famous hotels. |