Some Facts About BritainAnnual sporting events such as the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championship; the coastal towns and villages of Cornwall, including Penzance, St Ives, Polperro and Zennor; the holy island of Iona off the coast of Scotland; the windswept scenery and granite tors of Dartmoor, Devon; winter skiing in the Cairngorms, Scotland; the famous pubs and sandstone cellars of Nottingham; the mild but beautiful scenery of the Wye Valley; surfing the fine waves of Bude in Cornwall; White Wells and the Cow and Calf on Ilkley Moor, where you should not go bah't 'at; Knowsley Safari Park in Lancashire; and the fine, sandy beaches of the balmy Isles of Scilly, are a few of the attractions and sights of Britain. Queen Mab wishes you a comfortable stay in your Matfen England UK hotel. The famous and/or historic hotels of the world are major destinations in their own right. The Hotel Icon in Hong Kong, the Mount Nelson Hotel in Cape Town, Raffles Hotel in Singapore where the Singapore Sling was invented in the hotel's Long Bar, the Excelsior Hotel in Hong Kong near the famous noonday gun, the Grand Hyatt Macau, the Langham Shanghai Xintiandi in Shanghai and the Royal Tulip Rio de Janeiro. are among the classic or luxury hotels of the world. |