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

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

FAVOURITE FINDS FROM YOUR LATEST TRIPS — AS WELL AS SOME OF OUR OWN

Isle of Man Steam Packet offers car ferry and fastcraft crossings to Douglas from Heysham, Liverpool (Birkenhead during winter), Belfast and Dublin. Direct flights to the island are also available fro

If the Land of the Long White Cloud isn’t already on your travel bucket list, here are four major reasons why it should be in 2026