CAMBRIA

I didn't want to wait till next year to write about Cambria .http://www.seecambria.com/

M and I drove along Hwy 101 on Sunday Dec 21. It was a beautiful but cool day. We wanted to stop in Pismo Beach for lunch, but missed the turn. Instead we went to Solvang, which is a lovely town Danish style, we ahd some yummy Danish pastries too!

We arrived at our Inn at around 3PM http://www.cambriashores.com/ . Our room was really nice and comfortable, with a fireplace, king size bed, ocean view, and a spa bathroom. One nice thing about the room, there was a leather bound book which had notes, drawings and thoughts about previous guests. Of course I wrote on it as well. The guests that had left the day before were a couple from Sweden. They really loved the room and their stay in Cambria as well.

The Inn offered breakfast in the morning at the room, appetizers in the afternoon and freshly baked brownies at night :) After resting for a while, we went for a walk on the beach, it was very enjoyable. Later we went to town for dinner. We stopped at Mustache Pete's and had a very good dinner, canelloni for me, and chicken Marsala for M. After that we did a little window shopping, the streets had many Christmas decorations and everything looked very festive.

Next day, after breakfast, we went back to walking on the beach walk across the Inn, it rained the night before and everything was looking bright and blue. We went back to town for lunch, to a charming restaurant called Robin's, http://www.robinsrestaurant.com/ I had a great sandwich and M had salmon bisque and chicken curry, we also had some yummy dessert (mine was a sinful Godiva chocolate shot with whipped cream). After that we went to one of my favorite places in all of Cambria, it's called Heart's Ease Herb & Garden. It's a really quaint store that I would love to own. It has a beautiful herb garden in the back. In a gazebo, there were wind chimes hanging and they made wonderful sounds. M loved the chimes, and he got one for Christmas :)

Later we drove by Hearst Castle, and Lighthouse Point to see the elephant seals. It was quite amazing. There were so many of them laying in the sun, and they are so massive!!! It was fun looking at them and the ocean.

We went back to the Inn on time for the sunset which was gorgeous. After having some brownies we went back to town for dinner, we had calamari and pizza at Mustache Pete's again. Then we walked around some more , It rained again that night.

After breakfast and another walk on the beach, we headed back home. We really enjoyed the trip. We again stopped in Solvang and also at the Ostrich and Emu farm. M had to get an emu egg and got some ostrich patties for his brother.

All in all, we had a wonderful time in one of my favorite towns in California. (I'm adding more Cambria photos to my Facebook album)