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Tree-mendous! ‘Human Forest hotel’ set to become the new eco-holiday trend

Designed by Gdańsk-based architects Jan Sikora and Andrzej Marek, the 'Human Forest' hotel places guests right in the forest, without the walls and roofs of traditional buildings, maximising contact with its sights and sounds. sikorawnetrza.com

Without the walls and rooves of traditional buildings the hotel from Gdańsk architects has been designed to resemble trees, which allows it to blend into the forest bringing guests closer to the natural world.

Unbe-leaf-able! Stunning 5th century treasure found lying under pile of LEAVES in forest

According to experts, the ornate, gold clasps were probably formed around the middle of the 5th Century, a period of confusion and chaos caused by the migration of barbarian tribes and the collapse of the Roman Empire.

Treely romantic: two trees locked in a lovers’ embrace

The oak and the pine hugging each other, known as the “couple in love”, are protected by law.

Nap don’t snack, says owner of ‘revolutionary’ sleep café

Instead of smelling like coffee, the Sleep Café smells of a forest.

Bearing all in the snow: video of a bear in winter becomes social media hit

Forester asks bear why it isn’t sleeping despite snow covering the mountains.

Tree-mendous! Decimated woodland turned into spectacular ‘Polish Eagle forest’

To restore the hurricane-ravaged forest, over 3,000 people banded together to create the huge Polish Eagle using 23,000 birches, 67,000 pines and hundreds of larches - in just one day.

Wood you believe it! Teachers open school – in a forest

The school says that the idea behind having classes in the forest is to combat nature deficit. The theory is that many of today’s child health problems like allergies, obesity, depression and ADHD derive from children having a lack of contact with nature.

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‘I grew up in death camp house’: Extraordinary story of women born in Auschwitz and who has lived there ever since

Once asked to draw the view from her bedroom window for homework, Anna Odi couldn’t decide whether to draw the crematorium or the gallows where Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoess was executed. She told TFN: “I think I am a hostage to the stories of people who experienced this hell. I am continuing what my parents started, to be a witness. Like my parents, I owe it to the victims.”

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