Listen to locals puckering up to perform their "Silbo" whistling language, or simply gaze out to sea in the sunnier south.
Must not see too many foreigners, particularly from the sunny south, he thought, remembering to smile when their eyes happened to meet.
Here in the sunny south, winter was abbreviated, about half as long as the calendar said it should be.
"Least down here in the sunny south they still let you smoke indoors," Marino says, pulling a chair close.
"I could use some help, and since Hudson's still enjoying the sunny south, it looks like you're elected."
If, for example, he'd left behind all his warm clothes, we could assume he was heading for the sunnier south.
But what if, instead of northerners going to the sunny south in the winter, the sunny south were brought to them?
Something dangerous, possibly deadly, in the sunny south.
The only wealth came with the vineyards, which lay on the sunny south and southwest slopes.
All the power, money and influence in the sunny south.