The warm south has obsessed us cold northerners at least since the time of the first Romantics.
Whereas the prevailing moral wind used to blow reliably from the warm and indulgent south, now it blows also from the cold and prickly north.
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Essentially warm water from the South Atlantic moves north and warms big parts of northern Europe.
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The first match of the tour will be nerve-wracking for all involved, and there is no such thing as a gentle warm-up match in South Africa.
None of the injured quintet are playing in Tuesday's 50-over warm-up game against South Africa A - in which England are fielding their 11 remaining fit players.
After a weekend of warm welcomes from the local South Africa team, we had assembled this morning at the offices of PEN, one of the NGOs, in the grand Dutch Reformed Church (Groote Kerk) at the corner of Bosman and Madiba streets.
This creates bigger atmospheric waves, pushing warm air north and cold air south.
I've been traveling a lot lately around the country and it's especially nice to receive a warm welcome back here in the South.
The last night comes along the shores of Lake Manapouri, where the waters are as warm as any lake on the South Island, just begging to cool your legs.
The sun was barely up we had woken early to watch the sandbar disappear as the tide rose and now my wife Eleanor and I were relaxing in the warm salty water, eating juicy South Carolina peaches, soaking in the moment, enjoying our children and each other.
Tornadoes are most likely when exceptionally cold, dry air plunges south to violently clash with warm, moist air originating in the Gulf of Mexico.
England will play warm-up games against Bangladesh and South Africa this week, before starting the tournament proper against hosts West Indies on 3 May.
He featured in only one of South Africa's four warm-up matches last month, coming on as a second-half substitute in a 2-1 win over Colombia at Soccer City on 27 May.
The team have not reached that stage of a major competition either 50-over or 20-over cricket since 1992 but Pietersen believes they have a good chance following warm-up victories over Bangladesh and South Africa.
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In the two warm-up matches prior to this, South Africa secured a goalless draw with North Korea and beat Jamaica 2-0.
It was far from vintage Ireland against a team that only a month ago conceded more than 100 points against South Africa in a World Cup warm-up.
Cameroon were expected to beat a Japanese team who arrived in South Africa without a win in five warm-up matches.
When the glow of the holidays fades away, and there are still months of cold ahead, the warm, clear waters of the islands to the south call to us.
This year's edition of the biennial Twenty20 tournament begins next Tuesday and England, which faces South Africa in its third and final warm-up game Wednesday, will arrive on a miserable run of form.
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Meanwhile, a film version of Bizet's opera Carmen - translated into the South African language Xhosa - has received a warm reception at the festival.
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Peru's Pacific coastline is at the confluence of the Humboldt and Equatorial Counter currents, with warm water in the north and cold water in the south, a recipe for great marine diversity.
It was the 500th win for England in internationals and will put them in good heart before their next set of warm-up matches ahead of the World Cup finals in South Africa in June.
England are due to play a warm-up game against Bangladesh in Barbados next Wednesday and another against South Africa the following day, before beginning the tournament proper on 3 May against hosts West Indies in Guyana.
Attempts to argue that such events were not global are contradicted by abundant evidence for the Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age from East Asia, Australasia, South America and South Africa, as well as from North America and Europe.
Here, a verdant cape of national park juts into the warm Pacific like a pouting lower lip, creating beaches that face both north and south.
Last year South Africa beat Madagascar 1-0 in Durban in a World Cup warm-up and then narrowly edged the islanders in a penalty shootout in a Cosafa Castle Cup quarter-final tie played at Port Elizabeth.
The charismatic cartoonist-turned politician railed against south Indians and Muslims, provoked his men to dig up cricket pitches, drank warm beer, smoked cigars, adored Adolf Hitler, hosted Michael Jackson ('Jackon is a great artist... his movements are terrific, ' he once said), berated women wearing jeans and renamed Bombay.
All three are in South Africa and I'm sure we'll be involved in the World Cup warm-up squad.
On any other warm summer day, the white sandy beaches here around Jieh - a resort town about 15 miles south of Beirut - would be packed with sun worshippers.
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