Little Italy and San Diego Bay

San Diego is a great place to live. I am always amazed at the fun options that we have. Last weekend was a bit cool. Cool in San Diego means long pants and a sweat shirt. Anyway, Saturday was sunny so we decided to take a walk around the Little Italy Mercato www.littleitalysd.com/mercato .This is, in my opinion, the best farmer`s market in San Diego County. It seems to have that neighborhood feel to it. Not to mention the excellent assortment of produce and other goods for sale. They always have music by more than one musician and lots of great people and dog watching. The market is open from 9:00 am to 1:30 pm on Saturdays.
 After the market we split a meatball sandwich at Filippi`s on India. If you go, make sure you add the bell peppers. This makes for an amazing sandwich. Little Italy has great shopping at unique mom and pop stores.
After eating it was still early and I remembered that Hornblower Yachts had sent me two free cruise tickets that were due to expire soon. We took a short one hour cruise around San Diego Bay. I have cruised the bay many times but always seem to learn and see something new each time. Did you know that Harbor Island and Shelter Island were built with soil from dredging the bay back in the 1940`s and again in the 1960`s? Imagine the bay was made deeper to allow large ships and we gained two great pieces of land for recreation and tourism. Enjoy!