A home away from hollywood

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

Find repose from fashion season’s frenetic pace and recharge at a stylish urban sanctuary in the centre of the action

On the epic Californian adventure of her dreams, the writer Jill Dawson discovers a renewed sense of vitality and peace, surrounded by the Golden State’s breathtaking natural beauty

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

Leaving London behind, Sophie and Richard Vermont transformed an 18th-century stable block on their farmstead into an idyllic rural retreat

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