Some Facts About BritainThe ghostly white dog of Cator Common on Dartmoor; the buried treasure of John "Long Ben" Avery at Kennack Cove, Cornwall; how Pengersick Castle, Cornwall, is haunted by a Mr Millington, who accidentally drank the poison intended for his wife; 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; spectral Roman soldiers who march through the cellars of the Treasurer's House, York; weird paranormal events in Compton Castle, Devon; how Sir Francis Drake, with other ghostly magicians, replay the creation, from Devil's Point in Plymouth, the storm that defeated the Spanish Armada; the headless hound seen south of Aberystwyth, Wales; the spectre of the 18th Century Reverend Cole, seen in the garden of the vicarage at Luxulyan, Cornwall; and the Portuguese treasure ship sunk off Gunwalloe, Cornwall, are some of the folklore, haunted places, ghosts, myths and legends of Britain. J W Wells wishes you a comfortable stay in your Auchmithie Scotland UK hotel. The famous and/or historic hotels of the world are major destinations in their own right. The Royal Tulip Rio de Janeiro, the Venetian Macao Resort Hotel in Macau, the Excelsior Hotel in Hong Kong near the famous noonday gun, the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles, the Mandarin Oriental Pudong in Shanghai, the Imperial Hotel in Delhi and the Grand Coloane Beach Resort in Macau. are internationally renowned hotels. |