by Katerina Lorenzatos Makris ~ At first, you might wonder why the organizers of the Animal Film Festival would pick an out-of-the-way place like Grass Valley, California for their annual event, instead of more obvious choices like Los Angeles or San Francisco. Nestled in the Sierra Nevada foothills, it’s a hamlet of only about 13,000 […]
by Katerina Lorenzatos Makris ~ Because we are wimpy San Diegans who can’t take a little plunge of the mercury, Hubsy and I huddled on a concrete bench at the Balboa Park December Nights festival last weekend, shivering. But we didn’t care.
by Katerina Lorenzatos Makris ~ Whoa, am I a hot date or what? Knowing I‘ve always adored the December Nights festival in San Diego’s Balboa Park, Hubsy insists we escape the Hirsute Herd (our numerous rescued pooches) and go.
by Katerina Lorenzatos Makris ~ Ironically, the Archaeological Museum of Rhodes (Rhodos) was first built as a hospital by the Knights Hospitaller or Knights of St. John in the 1400s. When this order of medieval Crusaders often fueled by greed or poverty or both weren’t busy invading and pillaging Greek islands and other spots, they […]
by Katerina Lorenzatos Makris ~ In Dahab you can snorkel, scuba, windsurf, or be a beach potato. The political turmoil elsewhere in the country has not completely deterred travel to the small town on the remote Sinai peninsula. “It is the media that makes people afraid,” a tourist told the Daily News Egypt. “They make a […]
