Some Facts About BritainThe spectres, in Welsh costume, of Sarah Ponsonby and Lady Eleanor Butler, "the Ladies of Llangollen", seen in their home Plas Newydd in Llangollen, Wales; the phantom monks carrying a funeral bier, seen near Childe's Tomb on Dartmoor; 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 sounds of spectral gamblers, forced to play for eternity as punishment for playing dice on the Sabbath, in Glamis Castle, Scotland; the ugly phantom of the Duchess of Lauderdale, scratching at the walls of Ham House, London; the Wish Hounds of the Wild Hunt that haunt Wistman's Wood, Dartmoor; the May Day celebration of Baiting the Hobby Horse in Padstow, Cornwall; the ghost of Squire Hilliard that appears at an upstairs window, as well as other unexplained phenomena, at the Black House in Higher Brixham, Devon; Lyonesse, the fabled land that once joined Land's End to the Isles of Scilly; and the ghostly, faithful dog Gellert, seen in and around Bedgellert (Grave of Gellert), where it saved a boy from a wolf but was mistakenly killed when its master saw blood on its mouth, are among the ghosts, haunted places, folklore, myths and legends of Britain. We wish you an enjoyable stay at your chosen Achallader Scotland UK hotel. Seasoned travellers will become acquainted with the famous hotels in their destinations. Raffles Hotel in Singapore where the Singapore Sling was invented in the hotel's Long Bar, the Mandarin Oriental Pudong in Shanghai, the Peninsula Hotel in Hong Kong (featuring in the Clark Gable movie Soldier of Fortune), Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Cap d'Antibes, the Hotel Icon in Hong Kong, the Fasano Hotel e Restaurante Rio in Rio de Janeiro and the PuLi Hotel and Spa in Shanghai. are some of the world's most famous hotels. |