We wish you an enjoyable stay at your chosen Balnaboth Scotland UK hotel. When you get the chance, stay in some of the famous, luxurious and/or historic hotels of your destinations. The Royal Tulip Rio de Janeiro, the Excelsior Hotel in Hong Kong near the famous noonday gun, the Hotel Baur au Lac in Zurich, the Mandarin Oriental Pudong in Shanghai, the Renaissance Suzhou Hotel in Suzhou China, the Cascades Hotel at Sun City in South Africa and Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Cap d'Antibes. are among the historic, famous and/or luxurious of the international hotels. Some Facts About BritainThe wicked priest Dando who, on Sundays, still hunts with hounds along the Tamar River between Devon and Cornwall; the Portuguese treasure ship sunk off Gunwalloe, Cornwall; the headless hound seen south of Aberystwyth, Wales; 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 White Lady with a lantern, warning ships of danger on stormy nights, at St Ives, Cornwall; the ghost of Sir Walter Raleigh, seen in the Byward Tower of the Tower of London; the phantom monk, seen on Christmas Eves in the ruined abbey of Strata Florida, Wales; the ghost of an Irishwoman, who vainly clung to a rock now called the Irish Lady, reliving her death at Sennen Cove, Cornwall; the cantankerous, storm-raising ghost of the clergyman John Penneck at St Hilary, Cornwall; and the spectre of Jan Tregeagle, who must empty Dozmary Pool with only a limpet shell, on Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, are some of the folklore, haunted places, ghosts, myths and legends of Britain. |