J W Wells wishes you a comfortable stay in your Beaulieu England UK hotel. The famous and/or historic hotels of the world are major destinations in their own right. The Waldorf Astoria Shanghai on the Bund, the Renaissance Suzhou Hotel in Suzhou China, the Hotel Baur au Lac in Zurich, the Menger Hotel in San Antonio, the Savoy Hotel in London, the Norfolk Hotel in Nairobi and the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Hong Kong. are among the classic or luxury hotels of the world. Some Facts About BritainPhantoms of the Theatre Royal in York, including a Grey Lady and an actor who was killed in a duel; the ghostly black Daimler seen between Garabridge and Modbury, Devon; the fabled Loch Ness Monster of the Scottish Highlands; the famous ghost of Dorothy Dingley, still seen in Botathan, Cornwall, in spite of a 17th Centuty attempt at exorcism; Joan o' the Wad (Joan the Wad), a female piskey (Cornish pixie), sometimes helpful and sometimes mischievious, around Polperro in Cornwall; the blue-clad spectre of Anne Boleyn in Hampton Court Palace; how Mordred mortally wounded King Arthur at Slaughterbridge, Cornwall; the corpse-eating kergrim in the churchyard of Launceston, Cornwall; the ghostly coach and headless horses seen before Christmas in Penryn, Cornwall (turn away, or the coachman may carry off your spirit); and the White Lady and phantom funeral procession at Godolphin House, Cornwall, are among the ghosts, haunted places, folklore, myths and legends of Britain. |