TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: Getting into the Christmas Mood at Cambria Pine Lodge's Christmas Market

Friday, December 20, 2013

Getting into the Christmas Mood at Cambria Pine Lodge's Christmas Market

Cambria in the Central Coast of California (with population 6,500) caters primarily to tourists. When we visited in the Fall, they had a Scarecrow Festival. This Christmas season, it has several events including the Cambria Pine Lodge Second Annual Christmas market.

The Christmas market is a festival of Christmas lights and very popular with families roaming around the gardens of the Lodge to look at the lights and poke at the open shops. It was a bit chilly, but just the right type of event to put you in the Christmas mood.

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tags: Cambria, Central Coast, California, San Luis Obispo, Pine Lodge, Christmas market, vacation, holiday

All for now,

Cecilia

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's official website is ceciliabrainarddotcom. She is the award-winning author and editor of 22 books, including When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, The Newspaper Widow, Magdalena, Selected Stories, Vigan and Other Stories, and more. She edited Growing Up Filipino 1, 2, & 3, Fiction by Filipinos in America, Contemporary Fiction by Filipinos in America, and other books.. Her work has been translated into Finnish and Turkish; and many of her stories and articles have been widely anthologized. Cecilia has received many awards, including a California Arts Council Fellowship in Fiction, a Brody Arts Fund Award, a Special Recognition Award for her work dealing with Asian American youths, as well as a Certificate of Recognition from the California State Senate, 21st District, and the Outstanding Individual Award from her birth city, Cebu, Philippines. She has lectured and performed at UCLA, USC, University of Connecticut, University of the Philippines, PEN, Shakespeare & Company in Paris, and many others. She has served in the Board of literary arts groups such as PEN, PAWWA (Pacific Asian American Writers West), among others.