J W Wells wishes you a comfortable stay in your Beetley England UK hotel. When you get the chance, stay in some of the famous, luxurious and/or historic hotels of your destinations. The Chelsea Hotel in New York, the Renaissance Suzhou Hotel in Suzhou China, the Polana Hotel in Maputo, the Excelsior Hotel in Hong Kong near the famous noonday gun, the Hotel del Coronado in San Diego, Raffles Hotel in Singapore where the Singapore Sling was invented in the hotel's Long Bar and Hotel La Mamounia in Marrakesh (Marrakech). are internationally renowned hotels. Some Facts About BritainHow Drake's Drum, preserved in Buckland Abbey, is heard when England is in danger; the screams of Katherine Howard, begging for her life, still heard in Hampton Court Palace; the cross-shaped bare earth on the grave of John Davies in the churchyard of Montgomery, Wales, fulfilling his prophecy and proving his innocence of the theft for which he was hanged; the white-clad spectre of Lady Margaret Pomeroy, starved to death by her sister, seen in the dungeons and on the battlements of Berry Pomeroy Castle, Devon; strange phenomena in the National Railway Museum, York, including a haunted sleeping car; the large, bearded spectre that haunts bedrooms in Glamis Castle, Scotland; the ghost of the pirate Tom Crocker, seen in August on Burgh Island, Devon; the monster that lurks in a secret chamber of Glamis Castle, Scotland; how the Wild Hunt, seen at Yeolmbridge, Cornwall, may take the soul of someone who sees it twice; and the sounds of spectral gamblers, forced to play for eternity as punishment for playing dice on the Sabbath, in Glamis Castle, Scotland, are among the ghosts, haunted places, folklore, myths and legends of Britain. |