MORIEUX, France - The Chateau du Val hotel off France’s Brittany coast should be full this time of year. Instead, barely half of its 52 rooms and 28 rental properties are occupied.
Tourists are staying away after French media splashed photos of the nearby beach covered in rotting seaweed, fumes from which are blamed for the deaths of 36 wild boars in July. http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/green/articles/2011/08/14/fear_of_noxious_green_tides_drives_tourists_from_beaches_of_brittany/Article Article courtesy of The Boston Globe –Green Blog by Gregory Viscusi Bloomberg News
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