Little Italy, Mercato & Pacific Beach on a windy day

When we feel like Italian food. I mean when we really feel like authentic Italian food. We go to Little Italy. The pasta, sausage, meatballs and sauce are like no other place in San Diego. Yes, you can get great Italian food at lots of other places around the county, but you cannot get so many great options of fresh Italian to prepare a meal at home. There is a favorite shop for pasta, a favorite shop for bread, a favorite shop  for sausage.....well you get the picture. We headed to Little Italy for some food for Saturday night dinner and had the added pleasure of the Mercato (farmers` market). The Mercato, the food for dinner, lunch at a fantastic Italian restaurant and the view of San Diego Bay are all included when you decide to visit Little Italy on a Saturday.
For more information visit http://www.littleitalysd.com/

 Last Saturday was a rainy and windy day so we stopped just north of Crystal Pier in Pacific Beach to watch the wind surfing and kite boarding that goes on there when the wind kicks up. Even when the weather is bad, life is good in San Diego. Enjoy!

La Jolla Children`s Pool

The Children`s Pool in La Jolla has been one of our favorites for many years. This beach has a protective wall that allows safe swimming.The wall was built in 1931 with funding provided by Ellen Browning Scripps. Over the past few years the beach was closed to people due to the large number of seals that have made this their home. There was a movement by some over zealous animal rights people to try to get the beach closed completely to humans. This seems to be faltering. We wrote about this issue back on March 31, 2011. At that time there were only seals on the beach. last Sunday April 8, 2012 the beach still had seals, but also had people on the beach and in the water. This is a great development. As you can hopefully see from the above photo, people and seals can get along fine at this wonderful beach.
For more information see: http://www.friendsofthechildrenspool.com/ and www.sandiego.gov/lifeguards/beaches/pool.shtml