There’s a sad story behind the creation of the San Diego Zoo .. but I guess it proves that every cloud has a silver lining. Back in 1915, San Diego played host to the Panama California Exposition – to celebrate the opening of the Panama Canal, and San Diego’s location as the first major (American) port-of-call…

If you do an internet search for Little Italy, you’ll probably find the first reference is to an area of your home town where that nickname’s been assigned. In my case, it’s New Farm in Brisbane – but if you were in Melbourne, it would be Lygon Street. In New York, of course, there’s a…

At first glance, San Diego may not seem like a natural home for a Air and Space museum – Complete with an actual Apollo command module (Apollo IX – “Gumdrop”).. but the city does have a tradition of aviation: after all, its airport was originally known as Lindbergh Field, and the aviation pioneer tested his famous…

Defence (or Defense, as it is spelled there) has played an important role in San Diego .. it is host to the largest naval fleet in the world, and the only major Sub- and Ship-building facilities on the West Coast of the US. In fact, there are more than 35,000 defence personnel and contractors in…

San Diego, a city in Southern California near the border with Mexico, is a city of 1.4 million people – and is a world center for military and defence industries, biotech and more recently, healthcare. But in a lot of ways, it is its co-location with Tijuana across the border that has fuelled San Diego’s…