The Central Coast is plunging headfirst into the holiday season, with parades, Christmas tree lightings and other festive events scheduled across San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties through the weekend.
Sip and sail in Long Beach
Wine tasting makes for a great weekend escape. But wine tasting on a gondola is even better.
Last month, Times travel writer Christopher Reynolds included Long Beach’s
21 local destinations where Southern Californians can get a taste of Europe. Gondola Getaway, which offers rides around Naples Island, says it has “the largest and most unique fleet of Venetian craft in the World, outside, of course, Venezia itself.” This is fitting, given Long Beach’s status as a “friendship city” of Venice, Italy.
While cruising around Naples Island, visitors to Gondola Getaway can book a tasting experience to sample wines from
Ziggy s may serve up exclusively vegan fare, but you don t need to be vegan to enjoy some of the most comforting comfort food in San Luis Obispo County. If you re a fan of In-N-Out s animal-style fries, Ziggy s Dirty Fries take it to the next level: It s cheesier and saucier and miraculously plant-based. For the main course, Ziggy s avocado tacos offer something you never knew you needed: fried avocado. Or, keep things classic with The Standard American cheese, shredded lettuce, Ziggy sauce, with a choice of an Impossible Burger or a bean and veggie-based Ziggy patty. Ziggy s will satisfy all of your plant-based dreams.
Allison Tibaldi
FamilyVacationist.com
Skip-gen travel, also called gramping, is a growing travel trend of grandparents and grandkids traveling together without the children’s parents (so it skips the middle generation).
With pandemic fatigue hitting hard, a skip-gen vacation might be exactly the kind of multigenerational vacation that kids, parents and grandparents all need this year.
Parents can certainly use a break from nonstop family togetherness. Kids have cabin fever from the monotony of virtual schooling and homebound routines. And for grandparents who’ve been isolated from family for a year, hugging the grandkids tops their vacation wish list.
Fortunately, after a year in lockdown, there’s growing optimism that the worst of the pandemic is behind us. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently announced those who are fully immunized may travel “at low risk to themselves,” though the agency is still not recommending travel given rising COVID-1