Inside Germany's sausage hotel

What do you look for in a hotel interior? A calming color scheme? Crisp white sheets?Or what about wallpaper festooned with sausages, bratwurst-shaped cushions and IRL sausages hanging from hooks on the wall?Welcome to Boebel Bratwurst Bed and Breakfast, in the small village of Rittersbach near Nuremberg, Germany, which lays claim to being the world's first sausage hotel.

What do you look for in a hotel interior? A calming color scheme? Crisp white sheets?Or what about wallpaper festooned with sausages, bratwurst-shaped cushions and IRL sausages hanging from hooks on the wall?Welcome to Boebel Bratwurst Bed and Breakfast, in the small village of Rittersbach near Nuremberg, Germany, which lays claim to being the world's first sausage hotel.Many -- including, but not limited to, vegetarians and vegans -- might rather not know how the sausage gets made. But for those curious about this meaty motel, proprietor Claus Boebel filled CNN Travel in on the in(nards) and outs of his unusual inn.

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