Another festival in Terreros

This weekend see the 9th 'Experiencia Espantapitas' taking place in Terreros. My understanding of this is a music, arts and discussion festival for indie music. On the south end of the town (out past the Calypso) an area has been made for all the campers and there are hundreds of tents there with more dreadlocks on show than I've ever seen before. I think this is a festival that moves around Spain, I don't think it's here every year.

The arena has been built at the other end of the beach next door to Pepa's and the festival is running tonight and tomorrow, yesterday being a rehearsal day. We can hear the music up at the villa so anyone living on Calas del Pinar (where we are buying) will be getting a rousing free rendition as they are very close to the action, and it's currently 1.30am and still going on.

Throughout August there have been several events taking place, a few weeks ago there was to be a free concert by Malu, a female best selling singer in Spain. The stage was set up next to Pepa's bar but for some reason Malu cancelled on the day she was supposed to appear due to ill health.

During the 1st two weeks of August, which seems to be the main Spanish holiday weeks there were activities on the beach and the square every day with a large board erected in the main square detailing what was happening and when, from School Band competitions to Basket Ball games and much much more. It has really been good to see so much activity in the town and on the beach and although the population has increased 10 fold during August, we haven't found it to be as much of a problem as many of the local residents had told us it would be when we first arrived. OK, so there are more cars parked in the car parks at the bars at night and there are definitely more people in the local hyper-market but overall it has been now where near as bad as we were expecting.

With so many people and so many events, we have been really impressed with how smoothly the organisation of them is, how quickly they build the stages, seating tiers etc and then how quickly they take them down again and how, after every event, the whole place is cleaned ready for the next day.

It will be interesting to see whether this weekend really does so a mass evacuation of the beaches and streams of cars heading away from the coastline back inland - not to be seen until next summer.

After this weekend we should all be able to return to our normal peaceful lives living in a quiet sleepy little Spanish town.