Gibraltar is in Spain ... ooops!

GIBRALTAR It has often been said that British education has completely abandoned Geography as part of any curriculum, among many other such subjects. Whether this incident, reported in The Gibraltar Chronicle, can be blamed on education is ... well, judge for yourself: "A Gibraltarian woman living in Britain who is a UK passport holder has won an unusual battle with the Home Office. When she had filled in her form she was shocked to have a document returned to her which listed her place of birth as: town Gibraltar; country - Spain. She sent it back corrected as pictured. Only after contacting them and making her views clear was this corrected. It appears that this was the default entry in the Home office computer system." (We wonder if the IT boffins at the Home Office can read a map, or do they rely on GoogleMaps, which is also full of errors?)

You can throw a dog down a cliff in five minutes now ...

JAÉN (Source: cheekybooger.es) ... but you may not want to. Unless you knew what we're bashing on about. The name is interesting: despeñadero means cliff or gorge, and perro means dog (you knew that didn't you?), so Despeñaperros is literally 'a place where dogs plunge over cliffs' - or where this activity used to go on in remote times (no comments, please, just think of dwarf tossing of recent note Down Under). In fact, the name is that of a gorge or canyon carved out by the Despeñaperros River. It is located in the municipality of Santa Elena in the northern portion of the province of Jaén. It is a 76.49-square-kilometre area that was declared a natural park by the Junta de Andalucía, primarily for its geology and landscape, but also for its notable flora and fauna. It has traditionally been the dividing line between Andalucía and the rest of Spain.>>>