We wish you an enjoyable stay at your chosen Melbourn England UK hotel. The famous and/or historic hotels of the world are major destinations in their own right. The Porto Bay Rio Internacional Hotel in Rio de Janeiro, the Sofitel Rio de Janeiro Copacabana, the Norfolk Hotel in Nairobi, the Ritz-Carlton in Hong Kong, the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles, the Goldeneye Hotel (once the home of James Bond author Ian Fleming) in Jamaica's Oracabessa Bay and the Polana Hotel in Maputo. are among the historic, famous and/or luxurious of the international hotels. Some Facts About BritainHow two half-brothers, children of a bigamous and murderous crusader, finally met and befriended each other at Pengersick Castle - a white hare is the spirit of one of their mothers; how the dark-clad daughter of Judge Glanville, who sentenced her to death, is often seen in Kilworthy House, in Tavistock, Devon; how money paid by the Devil at the Tavistock Inn in Poundgate, Devon, turned into leaves after he left; ghostly monks at Buckfastleigh Abbey, Devon; the eighteenth century landlord haunting the Goat Hotel in Bedgellert, Wales; the headless hound seen south of Aberystwyth, Wales; the demons, witches and piskeys (pixies) that torment travellers at Kenidjack near St Just, Cornwall; the buried treasure of John "Long Ben" Avery at Kennack Cove, Cornwall; the White Lady with a lantern, warning ships of danger on stormy nights, at St Ives, Cornwall; and how baptism in the water of St Ruth's Well in Redruth, Cornwall, saves any child from being hanged in the future, are some of the folklore, haunted places, ghosts, myths and legends of Britain. |