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Heavy petting at France's human hamster hotel
A new gîte in Nantes offers guests the chance to live as a rodent for the night - complete with fur costumes and a romantic hamster wheel for two
Were Franz Kafka alive today - and were he to have developed an uncharacteristic interest in European city breaks - it would be interesting to know what he made of the latest addition to France's panoply of weekend getaway options.
For while there are no gigantic insects lurking in the corners of Nantes' newest urban bolthole - and, one would hope, no more than the standard quotient of existential angst - the writer might have appreciated the gite's raison d'être: metamorphosis, of a sort.
Tucked away down an unremarkable side-street near the centre of the western French city, the Villa Hamster offers guests the "unique" opportunity to leave their species at the door and live the life of a rodent. Urging those curious to enter into its "poetic" world of woodchippings and fur costumes, its website asks: "Is it possible to put myself in the place of my hamster?"
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