Today we went to Villar de Mazarife and checked into Casa de Jesus. We saw Brock and Sue from Austraila who had already checked in there as well. I took one look at the room and said “this will not be good”. I wanted to show you a picture of the room but we thought it would scare the kids reading this blog (by kids I mean Drew and Xander since I know our kids aren’t reading this) There were a lot of sleazy looking people around, I’m pretty sure even Jesus wouldn’t stay here even if it was the only room in town.
We took a walk to go to a shop in town and I saw another albergue and I stopped in to see what that looked liked and it was a whole lot better than that prison chamber that we checked into earlier. I booked the room and then sneaked out the back door of the prison chamber with our backpacks.
We were relaxing on a chaise lounge with a beer on the front lawn of the new albergue when we saw Brock and Sue from Austrailia strolled by. They came over and told us that they thought Casa de Jesus was horrific but because we were staying there, maybe it can’t be that bad. We felt bad that we deserted them but I thank God (and Jesus) that I didn’t have to sleep in Casa de Jesus.
A group of us (Austrailians, South Africans, and New Mexicans) then went to the local bar in town and had a great time. We left around 19:00 to have a great meal (paella) at our new albergue. Brock and Sue stayed at the bar because they were afraid to go back to their own room at Casa de Jesus. I think their plan was to get as drunk as possible before heading back to their house of horror (sadly there isn’t enough wine in the world to give them any level of comfort).
Hasta Winebago.
Come on! Post a pic of the prison chamber!
Can’t. We escaped out the back door before we could take any ?.
Can’t wait to see the pictures of Casa de Jesus. Sound awesome.
Hi Joe,
Since we snuck out the back door we didn’t take any. You’ll have to take our word for how bad it was.?
Beth