Some Facts About BritainThe spectre of Sir William Langhorne that harasses women in Charlton House, now a community centre, in London; the ghostly harbinger of death that haunts Ashleigh Barton, Devon; 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; the wicked priest Dando who, on Sundays, still hunts with hounds along the Tamar River between Devon and Cornwall; the phantom drummer of Edinburgh Castle in Scotland; how a white hare seen near Looe, Cornwall, is the spirit of a suicidal girl; the fiery chariot pulled by a bull in Jew's Lane, near Godolphin House, Cornwall; how the menhirs the Nine Maidens, near st Columb Major, Cornwall, were nine girls (and a fiddler) petrified for carousing on the Sabbath; the spectral nun appearing in Exeter Cathedral on July evenings; and the ghost of an Irishwoman, who vainly clung to a rock now called the Irish Lady, reliving her death at Sennen Cove, Cornwall, are some of the folklore, haunted places, ghosts, myths and legends of Britain. We wish you an enjoyable stay at your chosen Boreraig Scotland UK hotel. Seasoned travellers will become acquainted with the famous hotels in their destinations. The New Stanley Hotel in Nairobi, Claridge's in London, the Belmond Copacabana Palace in Rio de Janeiro, the Peace Hotel (formerly the renowned Cathay Hotel) in Shanghai, Christian's Hotel in Luoyang China, the Hotel Metropole in Hanoi and the Sofitel Rio de Janeiro Copacabana. are some of the world's most famous hotels. |