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BTW, my earlier reply also answers your question about "continental". As you say, anywhere that isn't an island is "continental". From a British point of view, hotels in Europe were ALL "continental" in that Britain is an island and the mainland European countries were on the European continent.

We have Napoleon to thank for this. In the nineteenth century the British were virtually the only people in Europe who could afford to travel, the Napoleonic wars having devastated much of mainland Europe. The entire tourism industry in Europe therefore sprang up almost exclusively to serve...