Madonna Inn

We went on a trip to Big Sur last week. On the way, we stayed at a place called the Madonna Inn. I thought that that might have something to do with either religion or popular music, but in fact it was founded by someone called Alex Madonna. There's a Google Map with a photo of it here.

Every room in the Madonna Inn is different, and has a theme. Several of them have rock waterfall showers (I still don't really understand what that means). We didn't know what we wanted, so we took pot luck and got the San Francisco room.

I don't know what was San Francisco about it, but it was very red.

The lightswitch was carefully covered with wallpaper, ensuring that the redness wasn't spoiled, and that you couldn't see it.


We had a red leather sofa in our room:


And an ornate metal bed (the boys had a similar metal bed).

The place was vast - it comprised several buildings. Here is Susanne, Alex and Daniel in front of one of them.


And here is another. Notice the stone chimney.


The interiors of everywhere were done out in the same sort of elaborate, opulent style. Here is the pastry shop / cafe (where we had breakfast).

Alex and Daniel's favorite thing was the urinal in the cafe. It was a copper trough, and when it flushed, the water poured over and turned a metal water wheel.


They had a postcard for every room, with a photo of the room. Not that you can really see, but here they are:



And here's Dan standing on a rock. (Notice the pink lamp post).