Every New Year’s Eve we get together with our friends, drink to the New Year and wish for all the things most people on earth consider essential for a good life: luck, health, love, happiness, prosperity, success – and some more intimate wishes. As for the next day, after waking up late, most of us start making a list of our personal resolutions for the new year.
For example, it is my decision that in 2025 I will try to be surrounded by smiling, open-hearted people willing to make my life more beautiful and easier, like the always-smiling, exemplary off-site manager of my rented, exclusive and luxury villa who welcomed me in this private, summer home in Mykonos, eager to show me around its impressive premises. It was a stunning villa with amazing vistas and dreamy services and the way this sweet, yet impeccably professional lady welcomed me there, is exactly the attitude I will be claiming from all the people around me in 2025!
One of my resolutions for the new year is to renovate my house and make it so that it reminds me of the amazing island home where I spent the most memorable holidays of last year. I will make sure to keep it spotless and shiny, to get some of the same state-of-the-art kitchen tools, fluffy pillows and sheets made of soft fabrics and fill my bathroom with the same luxury cosmetics I need to take care of myself every day. I may not have the same stunning sea views or be able to get a private pool as I had there, but I can certainly think of ways to bring some of the explosive atmosphere of Mykonos and the spirit of its people into my daily life!
Another thing I will try to do, that is deeply ingrained in my heart from the Mykonian summer, is to bring more light into my life, literally and figuratively. Even if the natural light of my homeland doesn’t compare with the bright sun that shines every day in Mykonos, I can certainly manage to somehow emulate it!
Among my resolutions for the next year is to create for myself some of the comforts I used to enjoy on this unique island, which is a real gem of the Aegean Sea. Perhaps in this case I may not have people available to me 24 hours a day, but I can create the feeling of care that my hosts abundantly provided.
And even though I have no chef skills I will also make sure to get all those amazing savoury and sweet delicacies from the island, to become the basis for some of the most sensational flavours I have ever tasted in my life.
To cut a long story short, as you can understand, my absolute first decision for 2025 will be to book my tickets and accommodation for my next stay in one of these sensational residences that will become again my home away from home, while I enjoy the sun and sea at the spectacular Cycladic coastline!
