We hope that you enjoy your stay in your Ashover England UK hotel. The famous and/or historic hotels of the world are major destinations in their own right. The Arena Copacabana Hotel in Rio de Janeiro, the Royal Tulip Rio de Janeiro, the Mandarin Oriental Macau, the Mount Nelson Hotel in Cape Town, the Waldorf Astoria Shanghai on the Bund, the Shangri-La Hotel in Lhasa and the Chelsea Hotel in New York. are among the historic, famous and/or luxurious of the international hotels. Some Facts About BritainThe spectre of George II, sometimes asking "Where are they?" in a German accent, seen at the windows of Kensington Palace, London; spectral medieval hunters seen in woods at Lustleigh Cleave, Devon; the ghostly black dog, a portent of death, seen at Okehampton Castle, Devon; the ugly phantom of the Duchess of Lauderdale, scratching at the walls of Ham House, London; the three spectres of Trinity Church on Micklegate, York; the spectres of Cavalier Kate Penfound, whose lover John was killed for being a Roundhead, and that of smuggler Arthur Penfound, in Penfound Manor, Cornwall; the hidden treasure of Hingston Down, Cornwall; the monster that lurks in a secret chamber of Glamis Castle, Scotland; the corpse-eating kergrim in the churchyard of Launceston, Cornwall; and how the Wild Hunt, seen at Yeolmbridge, Cornwall, may take the soul of someone who sees it twice, are among the ghosts, haunted places, folklore, myths and legends of Britain. |