Need a friend? Rent a fish
A BELGIAN hotel has found itself in the spotlight after offering to rent fish to lonely guests for the night - gold fish in a bowl, that is. The four star Hotel Charleroi Airport near Brussels says the service is not new, but word of it has now gone around the world after a radio producer tweeted a picture of the fish bowl that a friend of his had been offered at the facility in case she felt lonely. Hotel manager David Dillen told the Independent newspaper that the fish rental was popular with guests, adding that his goldfish were well looked after. Guests, he said, felt better after watching the fish swim around the bowl.