Bear delivery

Trevor @ Monday September 22nd 2008 12:55

A friend looking for a childbirth course in one of Spain’s lonelier regions said that ghitting parto and the name of the county capital only ghot veterinary sites. I tried to replicate, and discovered that the municipal authorities can’t spell the name of their principal natural attraction, the Cantabrian brown bear, or oso parto pardo cantábrico. Normally when tourist promoters say that something is a well-kept secret, one immediately assumes the opposite, but these guys may have cracked it.


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