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Unusual but true: Edible candy cane house a holiday dream come true
2019-12-06 

In unusual but true stories this week, we have an edible candy cane house in London, a hotel in France where you can share a room with horses, fascinating art made from flowers and ice, and speakers being used to revive damaged coral reefs.

All the odd and interesting anecdotes from around the world are here in our review.

Edible candy cane house a holiday dream come true

The Ginger-Breadroom is inspired by an enchanted woodland. [Photo/SIPA]

The Candy Cane House in London is a place where nearly everything is edible. The rooms include a Ginger-Breadroom that comes with a fairytale forest and chocolate pine cones, a Coco Kitchen that has melting chocolate walls and a caramel floor, and a Candy Lounge which sports a Christmas tree with edible decorations.

The three-story house isn't just magical on the inside, with the outside featuring candy cane-inspired windows, complete with larger-than-life sweets and finished with fake snow.

The Candy Cane House in London is a place where nearly everything is edible. [Photo/SIPA]

In the Candy Lounge, guests can eat baubles and candy floss decorations from the pink Christmas tree.

Share a hotel room with horses in France

Carole Cherpitel feeds a horse in front of a room for rent. [Photo/VCG]

Fraisnes-en-Saintois, France, is home to an unusual hotel, where guests can share a room with a horse.

The hotel features rooms with a window facing stables, which allows guests to spend some time up close with these graceful animals.

The hotel features rooms with a window facing stables. [Photo/VCG]

Fascinating art made from flowers and ice

Pink hibiscus flowers frozen in ice. [Photo/VCG]

Flowers have been transformed into fascinating pieces of art after being encased in blocks of ice and plunged into a lake.

Artists Bruce Boyd and Tharien Smith froze plants for three days after carefully arranging them in plastic boxes filled with water. After the ice blocks formed, the South African couple submerged them in rivers and lakes as the sudden change of temperature causes the ice to fracture, creating distinctive patterns.

Tharien Smith is seen with frozen blocks of flowers. [Photo/VCG]

Speakers may revive damaged coral reefs

A researcher deploys an underwater loudspeaker on a coral reef. [Photo/VCG]

Dying coral may be restored by playing the sounds of healthy reefs via underwater loudspeakers to attract young fish to damaged reefs, according to scientists at the University of Exeter and University of Bristol in the United Kingdom, and Australia's James Cook University and the Australian Institute of Marine Science.

After placing loudspeakers on patches of dead coral in the Great Barrier Reef, scientists discovered that twice as many fish arrived -- and stayed -- compared to equivalent patches where no sound was played.

An underwater loudspeaker on a coral reef. [Photo/VCG]
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