Tapas Tea

[jassi]

I expect this to be a short topic, but am curious to know what the 'high tea' that the children had at the Tapas consisted of. Anybody any idea?

[Brietta]

I expect this to be a short topic, but am curious to know what the 'high tea' that the children had at the Tapas consisted of. Anybody any idea?

I've never given it much thought.  In my very much younger day high tea usually consisted of a light meal of sandwich and cake with a pot of tea.  Posh establishments cut the crust off the bread.

Briget O'Donnel said ...
"The Mark Warner nannies brought the children to the Tapas restaurant to have tea at the end of each day. It was a friendly gathering. The parents would stand and chat by the pool. We talked about the children, about what we did at home. We were hopeful about a change in the weather. We eyed our children as they played. We didn't see anyone watching."
http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/dec/14/ukcrime.madeleinemccann

[jassi]

Yes, me too. However this seems to have been the main meal of the day for the children, unless they had a cooked breakfast, or lunch. I've never seen any description of what was actually served.

[Eleanor]

The obvious thing seems to be that the very small children were close to The Tapas, and the older children were walked over, where they were then Signed Out by whoever collected them.
Quite logically organised as far as I can see, and I cannot see a problem.

They probably had fish fingers and chips, or some sort of pasta.

[jassi]

Would this service likely only be available to those who attended the afternoon  creche session ?

[G-Unit]

High Tea for Young Children   Homemade lunches such as chicken or fish goujons, vegetable or meat pies, burgers and pasta
http://www.markwarner.co.uk/recruitment2/food-beverage/

[Carana]

Would this service likely only be available to those who attended the afternoon  creche session ?

The general arrangement seems to have been that children who attended the afternoon session would be escorted for high tea at the Tapas, unless the parents collected them earlier.

I'm not aware that the PJ ever asked whether any children who were absent for the afternoon session were then taken back solely for the high tea.

Only the records of the groups that the McCann children were in appear in the files.

[Eleanor]

Would this service likely only be available to those who attended the afternoon  creche session ?

I don't know, but an interesting, minor point.  Probably not.  Or perhaps they could go to The Millennium.

[G-Unit]

The high teas are for children aged 4 months to 9 years of age. (2016)

That's nice, two hot meals each day.

I think every lunch, bar the Thursday, we had people in the apartment having lunch. Erm, and my mum generally was the sandwich maker, that was a bit of a joke for the week, she'd took it upon herself to do loads of shopping, erm, while we were sort of sailing and stuff, she, she'd go to the Supermarket and get loads of, loads of provisions in and she'd be making piles of baguettes and, erm, yeah, and everyone would generally descend on ours and demolish the lot. Erm, and, yeah, we just all mucked in to cook for the kids, we generally tried to give them a hot, a hot lunch and, you know, people would just donate whatever was in their apartment'.
http://www.mccannpjfiles.co.uk/PJ/FIONA-PAYNE-ROGATORY.htm

[Eleanor]

Breakfast and Dinner.  Or High Tea, if you like.

[G-Unit]

I don't know, but an interesting, minor point.  Probably not.  Or perhaps they could go to The Millennium.

I think all children of the right age group. All the Tapas group children went and only the McCanns and one O'Brien attended afternoon creches.

[Alice Purjorick]

Yes, me too. However this seems to have been the main meal of the day for the children, unless they had a cooked breakfast, or lunch. I've never seen any description of what was actually served.

It was possibly like the traditional Scottish High Tea of old. A wee fried haddie or plate meat pie followed by lots of sticky bun/cream cake type goodies.

[jassi]

I think all children of the right age group. All the Tapas group children went and only the McCanns and one O'Brien attended afternoon creches.

So perhaps the Tapas group children, minus the McCanns of course, usually had their tea elsewhere, so missed the opportunity of meeting Madeleine.

[Eleanor]

I think all children of the right age group. All the Tapas group children went and only the McCanns and one O'Brien attended afternoon creches.

But possibly some children wouldn't attend The Creche Sessions at all, and be elsewhere.  And it was Half Board.  Breakfast and Dinner.  Dinner being the Evening Meal in this day and age.

I don't know how they worked it, but all of these children had to be fed somewhere.
I thought that the interesting logistic was that the really small children in creches were cared for as close as possible to The Taps because the older children were capable of walking.

This subject appears to be a minefield of what one might leave out of a Comment.

Where were any of these children signed out from.  It was almost certainly The Tapas, after High Tea.

In our house High Tea was Tinned Salmon Sandwiches, when I was young.  But it is just a term.

[Brietta]

So perhaps the Tapas group children, minus the McCanns of course, usually had their tea elsewhere, so missed the opportunity of meeting Madeleine.

Ah ... I see where you are coming from now ... must be getting slow in my old age.