Some Facts About BritainThe spectral monk of the Old Priory in Trevethey, Cornwall; the fabled Loch Ness Monster of the Scottish Highlands; the May Day celebration of Baiting the Hobby Horse in Padstow, Cornwall; the spectral car, seen on the B3212 near Moretonhampstead, Devon; 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 famous ghost of Dorothy Dingley, still seen in Botathan, Cornwall, in spite of a 17th Centuty attempt at exorcism; 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; and the phantom monks carrying a funeral bier, seen near Childe's Tomb on Dartmoor, are among the ghosts, haunted places, folklore, myths and legends of Britain. We wish you an enjoyable stay at your chosen Lower Froyle England UK hotel. When you get the chance, stay in some of the famous, luxurious and/or historic hotels of your destinations. The Goldeneye Hotel (once the home of James Bond author Ian Fleming) in Jamaica's Oracabessa Bay, the Shangri-La Hotel in Lhasa, the Hotel Icon in Hong Kong, the Excelsior Hotel in Hong Kong near the famous noonday gun, the Peninsula Hotel in Hong Kong (featuring in the Clark Gable movie Soldier of Fortune), the Langham Shanghai Xintiandi in Shanghai and Raffles Hotel in Singapore where the Singapore Sling was invented in the hotel's Long Bar. are some of the world's most famous hotels. |