Some Facts About BritainHow, off St Ives in Cornwall, the ship Neptune sank after seeing a ghost ship, becoming another ghost ship; the ghostly bag lady haunting the M4 near Heathrow Airport; Joan o' the Wad (Joan the Wad), a female piskey (Cornish pixie), sometimes helpful and sometimes mischievious, around Polperro in Cornwall; 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; the ghost of the pirate Tom Crocker, seen in August on Burgh Island, Devon; how Mordred mortally wounded King Arthur at Slaughterbridge, Cornwall; ghostly hammering heard in the Blue Room of Glamis Castle, Scotland; the monster that lurks in a secret chamber of Glamis Castle, Scotland; and the spectre of Sir Francis Drake, driving a hearse with headless horses, at Buckland Abbey, Devon, are among the ghosts, haunted places, folklore, myths and legends of Britain. Queen Mab wishes you a comfortable stay in your Lochgoilhead Scotland UK hotel. The famous and/or historic hotels of the world are major destinations in their own right. Christian's Hotel in Luoyang China, the Savoy Hotel in London, the Goldeneye Hotel (once the home of James Bond author Ian Fleming) in Jamaica's Oracabessa Bay, the Hotel Icon in Hong Kong, the Belmond Copacabana Palace in Rio de Janeiro, the Shangri-La Hotel in Lhasa and the Norfolk Hotel in Nairobi. are some of the world's most famous hotels. |