COUNTRY LIFE writers reveal the hotels that stood out to them in 2025

Twenty six years ago, Italian writer and gardener Umberto Pasti fell asleep beneath a remote fig tree on a stony hillside facing the Atlantic Ocean, 40 miles south of Tangier. When he awoke, he knew t

I’m awake. Very awake. It’s early on a wind-whipped Sunday morning and I’m neck-deep in the sea off the Isle of Man’s north-east coast. The rain is steady, the swell is heavy and the water is gaspindu

Rupert Uloth travels to Madagascar’s north-east to marvel at the extraordinary abundance of flora and fauna–much of which is found nowhere else on Earth

After my first couple of visits to the Greek island of Santorini, I had assumed most of the other Greek islands would be quite similar. So, I was happy to learn on subsequent visits to the wider Cycla

To mark Wanderlust ’s ‘Year of Culture’, our new series on the arts, crafts and traditions inscribed on UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage list begins by looking at why the ‘Portuguese blues’ still offers a direct line to Portugal’s soul