Take our Easter issue home and have a great long weekend with Country Life.
Inside:
The Editor’s Country Easter Quiz Can you answer all of our fiendish brain-teasers?
Home Sweet Home: All creatures take as much pride in constructing their houses as we do, observes Simon Lester
Party planning: Kit Hesketh-Harvey follows the changing fashions of the perfect bash and Anna Tyzack meets the party planners
George Plumptre takes a tour of the gardens associated with Canterbury Cathedral in Kent
In property: how to dress your house with plants
Simon Swynfen Jervis explores the Roman cabinet at Stourhead, a dazzling trophy of the Grand Tour
Gulls eggs; Vicky Liddell discovers the delights of this delectable egg, gathered in secret and limited by licence
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'Just look at those stairs. Just as an art form, they are bewitching, like the shell of a nautilus': The lure of buying a stairway to heavenIt seems like madness to buy a house purely because you fall in love with the staircase — but sometimes, they are simply so beautiful that it's impossible to resist. Toby Keel takes a look at some glorious examples of staircases we've seen in Country Life in the last couple of years.
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'I found myself in a magical world of a sun-dappled forest, speckled with wild flowers of kaleidoscopic colours and brilliant mosses': Solo walking in the PyreneesThe Pyrenees reserves its best treasures for walkers prepared to venture off the well-beaten trail, says Teresa Levonian Cole, on a solo holiday in Ribes de Freser.
