Creepy Birthday in a Ghost Town

After a storm hit the workaway where we were spending the last days and kept us up with the crazy wind and booming of the trees, Charlie, Mö and I set off already sleep deprived to our next destination: a Spanish mountain town where we expected to enjoy my birthday and Christmas 🎄

But sometimes life throws you a curve ball (or 20) and things don’t go as planned. The apartment was much smaller with less bedrooms than in the description, the bar and grocery shop looked permanently shut, and the weirdest of all… no people. Tons of houses, and not one light on as we walked through the town for an evening stroll. The energy of this place was heavy and strange, and I felt immediately uncomfortable. All signs pointed to getting out of there, so we wrote to the airbnb and asked to cancel. Because of the 2 night stay minimum, and also because we were incredibly exhausted from a 10 hour drive, we stuck it out til the 22nd, the earliest check out time.

All of us learned something out of this challenging experience, and left feeling hopeful that the next place would treat us a bit more gently and that things would fall into place giving us space to recover from the sleepless strange last few days.Read more