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

Frazzled from what felt like a never-ending year, we booked into South Lodge hoping for a quiet countryside reset – and it certainly delivered. The Reeds is a cluster of eco-lodges set on the edge of

AS the days remain dark and gloomy in the UK and our garden plants retreat from winter’s chill, the flowers in the Southern Hemisphere continue to open their petals to a glorious summer. Like the flow

There are three big advantages to a twin-centre holiday. The first is that instead of one long, tiring flight, you get a midway break. Then there’s the fact that when you come to the end of your ‘firs

Book your dream destination this year – for less than you might think!

These days, there’s a lot of talk about the politics of personality, but standing in an extensive cave system near West Wycombe, we were transported to a time when politics was at the centre of a scen