Imagine a beautiful, classic Greek fishing village, right on the water, Greek music coming from all the seaside shops, the smells of Greek food wafting out on the sea breezes. Imagine whitewashed buildings with blue accents….wait, stop, hold on a sec, we aren’t in Greece……we are in Tarpon Springs…..Florida?
That’s right people, you too can experience the flavors, sights and sounds of Greece, here in the United States, in Florida. Roberto and I went to Tarpon Springs last week on a whim and found a wonderful place to get down with our Mediterranean selves!

Tarpon Springs boasts the largest Greek population in the United States, as it makes up about 1/3 of the community. Its inhabitants are the descendents of Greek sponge divers that came to Florida from Greece around the turn of the century. This influence has become the backbone of Tarpon Springs and the art of Sponge Diving still exists today. Read the rest of this entry »

143By: KARI

Barcelona City Council presents the city this way on their official website: “Mediterranean. Two thousand years of history. Open to every innovation. Welcoming, plural, diverse. A city to live and share”
This may all be true, but the most striking feature of Barcelona is left out: The beauty of it!
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We left from New England FOR our New England leaf-peeping getaway on a Friday night after work. We figured it would be fun to see the same beautiful leaves from a different perspective, in New Hampshire. From MA it took about 3 hours to get to our destination:
The Spruce Moose Lodge in the village of North Conway, New Hampshire.
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Vieux- Montreal…a city that stole my heart in a mere 24 hours. It is a city that feels more like a part of France, than a city in North America. Montreal is located in Quebec, Canada’s culturally French province. The people of Montreal were incredibly warm, friendly and helpful. It was the perfect romantic getaway that we will remember for a lifetime.
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215Toronto is the capital of Ontario, Canada. It is a large metropolitan city. If one doesn’t have a good guide or group of locals to help point you in the direction of fun and entertainment, I for one would have been a bit lost. Toronto is not a city easily navigated by car or foot as it seems. We had 3 maps which needed constant cross-referencing to figure out where we were most of the time. And you should always add some time to your assumed journey times as locations that are even right next door to each other take twists and turns to get to.

203Our trip to Toronto was mainly a business trip with an added side of fun in between. We went for “Fan Expo Canada”, the yearly Canadian science fiction, fantasy, horror, comic convention. My partner, Roberto, is an artist who does a lot of coloring for comic, sci-fi and fantasy magazines. So we were invited to the convention by his agent and his operation, Udon. Udon is an affiliation of various artists that work on a variety of products for the industry. Roberto’s colleagues were wonderful people, mostly living in Toronto, who were a great help to us during our stay. Without them, we would have been truly lost. Read the rest of this entry »