I've been known to grouse that many people in this country are living in a bubble, but in France, the city of Roubaix is showing us how it's done - literally - having launched a hotel of inflated bubbles in a local park this summer.
Unlike the symbolic ones I accuse political and philosophical imbeciles of inhabiting here, these bubbles actually allow their inhabitants a better view of their surroundings (as compared to a hotel building, at any rate). Per usual for the French, getting "close" to nature never looked so chic (and non-"roughing it"?)?
