J W Wells wishes you a comfortable stay in your Bisley England UK hotel. When you get the chance, stay in some of the famous, luxurious and/or historic hotels of your destinations. The Norfolk Hotel in Nairobi, the Peninsula Hotel in Hong Kong (featuring in the Clark Gable movie Soldier of Fortune), the Four Seasons Hotel Macao Cotai Strip in Macau, the Grand Coloane Beach Resort in Macau, the Sofitel Rio de Janeiro Copacabana, Raffles Hotel in Singapore where the Singapore Sling was invented in the hotel's Long Bar and the Imperial Hotel in Delhi. are among the classic or luxury hotels of the world. Some Facts About BritainThe spectres of Cavalier Kate Penfound, whose lover John was killed for being a Roundhead, and that of smuggler Arthur Penfound, in Penfound Manor, Cornwall; Lyonesse, the fabled land that once joined Land's End to the Isles of Scilly; the black-clad ghost of Deadman's Cove, Cornwall; the spectral car, seen on the B3212 near Moretonhampstead, Devon; the ghost of the pirate Tom Crocker, seen in August on Burgh Island, Devon; the phantom great Dane seen at Cheriton Cross, Devon; the spectral monk of the Old Priory in Trevethey, Cornwall; a phantom miner, demons and the damned Jan Tregeagle (hiding from Satan) in St Michael's Chapel, Roche Rocks, Cornwall; strange phenomena in the National Railway Museum, York, including a haunted sleeping car; and how Merlin's magic enabled Uther Pendragon to seduce Igerne, and sire Arthur, in Tintagel Castle, are among the ghosts, haunted places, folklore, myths and legends of Britain. |