Spanish village tells tourists to suck up roosters and braying donkeys

Posters in Ribadesella warn visitors unhappy about reality of rural life they may not be in the right place'

Some called in to complain about braying donkeys. Other tourists dialled up officials in the northern Spanish village of Ribadesella, population 5,700, to notify them of the mess left behind by wandering cows.

Last week we had a lady who called us three or four times over a rooster that was waking her up at 5am," said Ramon Canal, Ribadesella's mayor. She told us that we had to do something."