We hope that you enjoy your stay in your Maidenhead England UK hotel. When you get the chance, stay in some of the famous, luxurious and/or historic hotels of your destinations. The Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles, Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Cap d'Antibes, Hotel La Mamounia in Marrakesh (Marrakech), the Sofitel Rio de Janeiro Copacabana, the Savoy Hotel in London, the Ritz-Carlton in Hong Kong and the Excelsior Hotel in Hong Kong near the famous noonday gun. are among the classic or luxury hotels of the world. Some Facts About BritainGhostly monks at Buckfastleigh Abbey, Devon; how Dozmary Pool, Cornwall, is home to the Lady of the Lake, protecting King Arthur's sword, Excalibur; the Portuguese treasure ship sunk off Gunwalloe, Cornwall; the ghost of an Irishwoman, who vainly clung to a rock now called the Irish Lady, reliving her death at Sennen Cove, Cornwall; the ghostly white dog of Cator Common on Dartmoor; the mermaids and sunken treasure of Cudden Point, Cornwall; the phantom dwarf, trying to lead people to hidden treasure - or something worse - at Chudleigh Knighton, Devon; the spectre of Sir William Langhorne that harasses women in Charlton House, now a community centre, in London; supernatural phenomena including a Lady in Grey, possibly Mary, Queen of Scots, in Holyrood Palace (Holyroodhouse); and how the menhirs the Nine Maidens, near st Columb Major, Cornwall, were nine girls (and a fiddler) petrified for carousing on the Sabbath, are some of the folklore, haunted places, ghosts, myths and legends of Britain. |