Some Facts About BritainHow, off St Ives in Cornwall, the ship Neptune sank after seeing a ghost ship, becoming another ghost ship; Lyonesse, the fabled land that once joined Land's End to the Isles of Scilly; the White Lady and phantom funeral procession at Godolphin House, Cornwall; the Wish Hounds of the Wild Hunt that haunt Wistman's Wood, Dartmoor; the white-clad ghost of Jane Seymour, holding a candle, seen in Hampton Court Palace; a number of ghosts at Jamaica Inn on Bodmin Moor, including a murdered sailor who sits on an outside wall; the ghost of a Crusader, Ranulph, in the moat of Blanchminster Castle, Cornwall; the famous ghost of Dorothy Dingley, still seen in Botathan, Cornwall, in spite of a 17th Centuty attempt at exorcism; the sounds of spectral gamblers, forced to play for eternity as punishment for playing dice on the Sabbath, in Glamis Castle, Scotland; and how Jesus landed near Padstow in Cornwall, before spending part of his childhood in England, are among the ghosts, haunted places, folklore, myths and legends of Britain. J W Wells wishes you a comfortable stay in your Bangor Northern Ireland UK hotel. When you get the chance, stay in some of the famous, luxurious and/or historic hotels of your destinations. Raffles Hotel in Singapore where the Singapore Sling was invented in the hotel's Long Bar, the beautiful and historic San Ysidro Ranch in Santa Barbara, the Hotel Icon in Hong Kong, Claridge's in London, the Excelsior Hotel in Hong Kong near the famous noonday gun, the Peace Hotel (formerly the renowned Cathay Hotel) in Shanghai and the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Hong Kong. are some of the world's most famous hotels. |