We wish you an enjoyable stay at your chosen Austwick England UK hotel. The famous and/or historic hotels of the world are major destinations in their own right. The PuLi Hotel and Spa in Shanghai, the Peninsula Hotel in Hong Kong (featuring in the Clark Gable movie Soldier of Fortune), the Mandarin Oriental Macau, the Belmond Copacabana Palace in Rio de Janeiro, the Ritz-Carlton in Hong Kong, the Menger Hotel in San Antonio and the Palace of the Lost City at Sun City in South Africa. are among the classic or luxury hotels of the world. Some Facts About BritainHow Drake's Drum, preserved in Buckland Abbey, is heard when England is in danger; spectral medieval hunters seen in woods at Lustleigh Cleave, Devon; the Wish Hounds of the Wild Hunt that haunt Wistman's Wood, Dartmoor; the monster that lurks in a secret chamber of Glamis Castle, Scotland; the corpse-eating kergrim in the churchyard of Launceston, Cornwall; how the Wild Hunt, seen at Yeolmbridge, Cornwall, may take the soul of someone who sees it twice; Joan o' the Wad (Joan the Wad), a female piskey (Cornish pixie), sometimes helpful and sometimes mischievious, around Polperro in Cornwall; the spectral car, seen on the B3212 near Moretonhampstead, Devon; the May Day celebration of Baiting the Hobby Horse in Padstow, Cornwall; and the ugly phantom of the Duchess of Lauderdale, scratching at the walls of Ham House, London, are among the ghosts, haunted places, folklore, myths and legends of Britain. |