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The long, dark night of winter solstice is behind us, but the short, dark days of early 2022 can try even the sunniest of souls. Surely springtime and summer are just over the horizon—but it still feels like an eternity before they come. So, rather than await them here in the Northern Hemisphere, why not go meet them in sunny places closer to the equator? For those of us in need of seasonal escape, especially during these challenging times, a home in a warm climate is the perfect retreat.

Since 2000, Pantone has named its “Color of the Year”. For the first time this year, they created a new shade that wasn’t in its existing catalogue of colours before. They have blended blue tones with a violet-red to create PANTONE 17-3938 Very Peri.

For a long time, Greek wines were equated with inferior quality. Apart from Retsina, which has divided the wine community into lovers and haters, wines from Greece were hardly known. But this has now changed, as luxurydefined, the online magazine of Christie’s International Real Estate, writes in its extensive article about Greek quality wines.