Some Facts About BritainThe white-clad spectre of Lady Margaret Pomeroy, starved to death by her sister, seen in the dungeons and on the battlements of Berry Pomeroy Castle, Devon; ghostly, pipe-smoking Beefeaters in the Byward Tower of the Tower of London; the monster that lurks in a secret chamber of Glamis Castle, Scotland; a number of ghosts at Jamaica Inn on Bodmin Moor, including a murdered sailor who sits on an outside wall; the spectre of Sir Francis Drake, driving a hearse with headless horses, at Buckland Abbey, Devon; the blue-clad spectre of Anne Boleyn in Hampton Court Palace; Lyonesse, the fabled land that once joined Land's End to the Isles of Scilly; 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; the phantom monks carrying a funeral bier, seen near Childe's Tomb on Dartmoor; and the corpse-eating kergrim in the churchyard of Launceston, Cornwall, are among the ghosts, haunted places, folklore, myths and legends of Britain. We hope that you enjoy your stay in your Alnmouth England 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 Polana Hotel in Maputo, the Venetian Macao Resort Hotel in Macau, the Grand Hyatt Macau, the Belmond Copacabana Palace in Rio de Janeiro, the Four Seasons Hotel in Hong Kong and Claridge's in London. are some of the world's most famous hotels. |