Some Facts About BritainHow Sir Francis Drake, with other ghostly magicians, replay the creation, from Devil's Point in Plymouth, the storm that defeated the Spanish Armada; how the menhirs the Nine Maidens, near st Columb Major, Cornwall, were nine girls (and a fiddler) petrified for carousing on the Sabbath; the eighteenth century landlord haunting the Goat Hotel in Bedgellert, Wales; how baptism in the water of St Ruth's Well in Redruth, Cornwall, saves any child from being hanged in the future; the wicked priest Dando who, on Sundays, still hunts with hounds along the Tamar River between Devon and Cornwall; the ghost of Lady Glamis, burned at the stake in the reign of witchcraft-obsessed James V of Scotland, that hovers above the clock tower and walks the corridors of Glamis Castle; how Squire Cabell and his black hounds haunt the Abbots's Way on Dartmoor, Devon; the fiery chariot pulled by a bull in Jew's Lane, near Godolphin House, Cornwall; the ghostly harbinger of death that haunts Ashleigh Barton, Devon; and the phantom drummer of Edinburgh Castle in Scotland, are some of the folklore, haunted places, ghosts, myths and legends of Britain. We hope that you enjoy your stay in your Bootle England UK hotel. When you get the chance, stay in some of the famous, luxurious and/or historic hotels of your destinations. The Palace of the Lost City at Sun City in South Africa, the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles, the Mount Nelson Hotel in Cape Town, the Renaissance Suzhou Hotel in Suzhou China, Claridge's in London, the Hotel Lisboa and its famous casino in Macau and the Belmond Copacabana Palace in Rio de Janeiro. are some of the world's most famous hotels. |