In 1993 takes the form of the series "The Landscapes of the Planet Safe" with a style and color that creates idyllic corner imagines the painter.

Almost everyone nurtures the idea that a vacation home in some idyllic corner of Europe will pay off in long-term capital gains.

Though these manmade wonders may be only shadows today, the natural splendors of this idyllic corner of the Appalachians -trout-filled streams, rugged rivers, innumerable lakes, and peaks that reward the hiker (and even the leisurely motorist) with views that span three states - remain undimmed.

The nine low-lying atolls and islands of Tuvalu comprise one of the most isolated independent nations on earth, huddled together in an idyllic and unspoiled corner of the Pacific.

The immense success of Robert Harris's first novel, "Fatherland," enabled him to give up his job as a newspaper columnist and buy a rambling Victorian mansion in an idyllic corner of Berkshire 60 miles west of London.

High-decibel boomboxes, public urination and sidewalks full of drunken young people had turned what many thought of as an idyllic corner of the city into a menacing carnival.

But it has its idyllic corners: Herrenhauser Park, the Eilenriede forest, which encircles the city, and its 1.5-mile-long man-made lake, the Maschsee.

That's not to say that the eurozone has no problems of its own, but these can seem far away when viewed from an idyllic rural corner of France.

With dozens of dazzling white-sand beaches, it's easy to find a quiet, idyllic corner on Mauritius.