Some Facts About BritainThe black page boy whose ghost haunts Glamis Castle in Scotland; the ghostly bag lady haunting the M4 near Heathrow Airport; the blue-clad spectre of Anne Boleyn in Hampton Court Palace; how Mordred mortally wounded King Arthur at Slaughterbridge, Cornwall; a number of ghosts at Jamaica Inn on Bodmin Moor, including a murdered sailor who sits on an outside wall; the sounds of spectral gamblers, forced to play for eternity as punishment for playing dice on the Sabbath, in Glamis Castle, Scotland; the ghostly old woman, in a red headscarf, haunting Kitty Steps, by a pool in Lydford Gorge, Dartmoor; Joan o' the Wad (Joan the Wad), a female piskey (Cornish pixie), sometimes helpful and sometimes mischievious, around Polperro in Cornwall; the spectres, in Welsh costume, of Sarah Ponsonby and Lady Eleanor Butler, "the Ladies of Llangollen", seen in their home Plas Newydd in Llangollen, Wales; and the hidden treasure of Hingston Down, Cornwall, are among the ghosts, haunted places, folklore, myths and legends of Britain. J W Wells wishes you a comfortable stay in your Berwick Upon Tweed England UK hotel. When you get the chance, stay in some of the famous, luxurious and/or historic hotels of your destinations. The Porto Bay Rio Internacional Hotel in Rio de Janeiro, the Hotel del Coronado in San Diego, the Hotel Icon in Hong Kong, the PuLi Hotel and Spa in Shanghai, the Chelsea Hotel in New York, Christian's Hotel in Luoyang China and the Belmond Copacabana Palace in Rio de Janeiro. are among the classic or luxury hotels of the world. |