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; supernatural phenomena including a Lady in Grey, possibly Mary, Queen of Scots, in Holyrood Palace (Holyroodhouse); how baptism in the water of St Ruth's Well in Redruth, Cornwall, saves any child from being hanged in the future; ghostly monks at Buckfastleigh Abbey, Devon; how money paid by the Devil at the Tavistock Inn in Poundgate, Devon, turned into leaves after he left; the demons, witches and piskeys (pixies) that torment travellers at Kenidjack near St Just, Cornwall; the phantom ship that sails inland at St Levan, Cornwall; the spectre of Jan Tregeagle, who must empty Dozmary Pool with only a limpet shell, on Bodmin Moor, Cornwall; the ghost of Clifford Dudley, executed with Lady Jane Grey, still weeping in the Beauchamp Tower of the Tower of London; and the buried treasure of John "Long Ben" Avery at Kennack Cove, Cornwall, are some of the folklore, haunted places, ghosts, myths and legends of Britain. We hope that you enjoy your stay in your Acomb England UK hotel. Seasoned travellers will become acquainted with the famous hotels in their destinations. The Royal Tulip Rio de Janeiro, Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Cap d'Antibes, the Mount Nelson Hotel in Cape Town, the Queen Mary in Long Beach, the Norfolk Hotel in Nairobi, the Excelsior Hotel in Hong Kong near the famous noonday gun and the Cascades Hotel at Sun City in South Africa. are internationally renowned hotels. |