The actual hotel from the old BBC comedy Fawlty Towers has been sold for £1.5m. Apparently, the original owner of the hotel was the inspiration for John Cleese's character, Basil Fawlty:
Cleese, who stayed at the hotel with the Monty Python team in 1971, described [Donald] Sinclair as "the most wonderfully rude man I have ever met".
Sinclair, who died in 1981, is said to have thrown Eric Idle's suitcase out of the window "in case it contained a bomb" and complained about Terry Gilliam's table manners.
Link to Guardian article; via
Boing Boing.
