Near Christmas, volunteers put on a dazzling display of lights and, on the day before Christmas Eve, The Ship Inn cooks up a traditional dish of stargazy pie in honour of local lad Tom Bawcock, who supposedly ended a village famine by braving storms to land a bounty of fish.

BBC: The perfect trip: Cornwall

Last night, on the eve of Christmas Eve (the last possible day I can steal before heading down south to my parents), Eden, Isaac and I met with some of the people in my new LATISM Central Coast consortium Jose Huitron, Jesse Luna, Belen Rodriguez, Jes Sofia Valle, Marea Lopez.

FORBES: Christmas Greetings from Pismo Beach