We hope that you enjoy your stay in your Almondbury England UK hotel. Seasoned travellers will become acquainted with the famous hotels in their destinations. The Norfolk Hotel in Nairobi, Raffles Hotel in Singapore where the Singapore Sling was invented in the hotel's Long Bar, the Menger Hotel in San Antonio, the Savoy Hotel in London, Claridge's in London, the Peace Hotel (formerly the renowned Cathay Hotel) in Shanghai and the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles. are among the historic, famous and/or luxurious of the international hotels. Some Facts About BritainThe spectre of Jan Tregeagle, who must empty Dozmary Pool with only a limpet shell, on Bodmin Moor, Cornwall; the ghostly harbinger of death that haunts Ashleigh Barton, Devon; the spectre of Anne Boleyn, seen in the Queen's House at the Tower of London; how Parson Jupp was reincarnated as a spider at the vicarage in St Cleer, Cornwall; the ghost of Sir Walter Raleigh, seen in the Byward Tower of the Tower of London; how money paid by the Devil at the Tavistock Inn in Poundgate, Devon, turned into leaves after he left; the wicked priest Dando who, on Sundays, still hunts with hounds along the Tamar River between Devon and Cornwall; the ghost of an Irishwoman, who vainly clung to a rock now called the Irish Lady, reliving her death at Sennen Cove, Cornwall; the Pool of the Black Hound near Dean Combe, Devon, where a phantom dog (actually a weaver named Knowles) is doomed to empty the pond with a leaky nutshell; and the phantom drummer of Edinburgh Castle in Scotland, are some of the folklore, haunted places, ghosts, myths and legends of Britain. |