We hope that you enjoy your stay in your Letterewe Scotland UK hotel. When you get the chance, stay in some of the famous, luxurious and/or historic hotels of your destinations. The Excelsior Hotel in Hong Kong near the famous noonday gun, the Hotel Metropole in Hanoi, the Chelsea Hotel in New York, the Royal Tulip Rio de Janeiro, the Hotel Baur au Lac in Zurich, the Mandarin Oriental Macau and the New Stanley Hotel in Nairobi. are among the historic, famous and/or luxurious of the international hotels. Some Facts About BritainThe screams of Katherine Howard, begging for her life, still heard in Hampton Court Palace; a phantom miner, demons and the damned Jan Tregeagle (hiding from Satan) in St Michael's Chapel, Roche Rocks, Cornwall; the spectres, in Welsh costume, of Sarah Ponsonby and Lady Eleanor Butler, "the Ladies of Llangollen", seen in their home Plas Newydd in Llangollen, Wales; a number of ghosts at Jamaica Inn on Bodmin Moor, including a murdered sailor who sits on an outside wall; the ghost of Squire Hilliard that appears at an upstairs window, as well as other unexplained phenomena, at the Black House in Higher Brixham, Devon; the Blue Lady of Berry Pomeroy Castle, Devon, who lures men to heir deaths and is sometimes a portent of death; Lyonesse, the fabled land that once joined Land's End to the Isles of Scilly; the sounds of spectral gamblers, forced to play for eternity as punishment for playing dice on the Sabbath, in Glamis Castle, Scotland; the spectral car, seen on the B3212 near Moretonhampstead, Devon; and the May Day celebration of Baiting the Hobby Horse in Padstow, Cornwall, are among the ghosts, haunted places, folklore, myths and legends of Britain. |