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SLO: Creamery Marketplace
The Creamery Marketplace is a cool spot in San Luis Obispo in Central Coast. Here’s where we took our visitors on Saturday.
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Hiking Pismo Preserve
Pismo Preserve is a local favourite for hikes, nature-lovers, and photography. The multi-use trails are also open to bikers and equestrians. Here’s what to know about visiting Pismo Preserve.
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Prospect Cottage
”A little farther along the peninsula is Prospect Cottage, the black-tarred shack where Derek Jarman retreated in his final years. Dying of AIDS, the director transformed the house into a text, covering the walls in books and paintings and poetry. John Donnie’s poem “The Sunne Rising” is inscribed on an outside all, hand-cut from marine
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Oranges In Flight
I am reading Katherine May’s book called Enchantment. She has divided it into sections according to the elements. This is part of Air. This passage caught my eye as I have never known this about oranges. Ginger, yes. And so I looked into it and there is some information about its essential oils. One FB
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Black Prince Well
The St Nicholas Hospital was founded just outside Canterbury in 1084, and was probably the first of its kind in England, a place where people with leprosy (now called Hansen’s disease) could live together on the edges of society, in an almost monastic fashion. They paid their way by begging and saying prayers for the
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Hong Kong Eats
Hong Kong is a foodie destination. No doubt about it. Living in Central Coast California, I was really missing authentic and delicious Asian food. I’ve had a sad share of bad rice, a staple that isn’t even reliable here. So the food I was after in Hong Kong is Asian – Japanese, Shanghainese, dim sum,
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Art: Gathering on Travels
Stitch Stories is a wonderful book full of ideas, techniques, inspiration, and stories…
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An Ode to Pacific Coasting: California (Part 1)
In this series we start from Southern California north on our Pacific Coast Highway trip. Dr Seuss, Bart’s Books, Koba Sushi are some highlights
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Series: An Ode to Pacific Coasting
Introducing the Pacific Coast Series. I recently added Danielle Kroll’s Pacific Coasting to my library and was inspired to do a series of travel posts along the Pacific Coast, from Southern California to Vancouver, Canada.
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Leavenworth and Solvang: Themed Towns of the West Coast
Love Europe? Check out these two towns on the US West Coast. One is known as the Christmas Town.
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Saturday in Arroyo Grande
Saturday brunch at Branch Street Deli, a look inside The Gallery, and a browse through Monarch Books in Arroyo Grande, Central Coast in California.
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The South West Coast Path, UK
”The South West Coast Path is a difficult, craggy and bloody-minded walking route that hugs the coastline between Minehead in Somerset and Poole Harbour in Dorset, taking in the seaboards of North and South Devon, and the entire perimeter of Cornwall along the way. I call it bloody-minded because it exhibits a willful refusal to