And the whole village was there!

Terreros in winter is quiet, you see small groups of people out and about having lunch, on the beach, meeting for an evening drink and you bump into people in the shops but there is little concept of how many people are living here all year.

Well last night, we got a really good idea.It was the annual fund raising dinner held at Mesa Pepa's restaurant to raise funds for the junior football team. Tickets were a bargain at €10 for which we had Chicken and Jacket potatoes plus vegetables - for the English! (I'll explain that one a little later).

I think there would have been little money raised from selling the tickets but the raffle would be the main fund raiser. There was an army of ladies selling raffle tickets all night and as Pepa's filled up, so did their buckets. There must have been about 50 raffle prizes all donated by local businesses and residents and the main prize was a lovely Microwave.

There must have been well over 100 people packed into Pepa's and although it semed chaotic to start with once we were all seated, the meal was served quickly and the drinks flowed. After dinner the raffle was a joint effort with José Luis and Amelia selecting the prizes and drawing the tickets and Michelle and Lucy calling out the numbers in both Spanish & English.

There was a wonderful atmosphere with all the nationalities in Terreros represented, and after the raffle was finished dancing could start to the disco outside. All this went on until the early hours of the morning with some dancing until 3am. It's was so good to see the whole community come together for such a good reason and all have so much fun.

Well done to the organisers, over €600 was raised from the raffle alone.

Now, about those vegetables!

When you eat out in a Spanish restuarant they do not serve main courses with vegetables, they normally only come with chips or potatoes but the English like to have vegetables with their meal. You can ask for vegetables and sometimes they may have some frozen that they can do but considering the fresh produce you can buy at the markets, it seems rather surprising that you don't get them by in restaurants. So, in acknowledgement of the number of English attending last nights dinner, Mesa Pepa's had done plates of vegetables (for the English) to have with the chicken, they were frozen (possibly Bird's Eye) but they added colour to the plates and were not over cooked so were quite a nice addition.

If you are eating out in Spain and want vegetables you need to aks for them, and I would suggest you ask whether they are fresh or not, and what they are as we have known someone who was having a meal of lamb & chips, they asked for vegetables and they were brought a plate of potatoes!

Do you have fresh vegetables? - tienes las verduras frescas, por favor?