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Where to find the Easter eggs hidden inside this week's issue of Country Life
Our Art Team have taken great pleasure in hiding 12 illustrated Easter eggs among the pages of this week's issue.
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'We are here to champion British farmers who produce wonderful milk, meat, vegetables and eggs': The Country Life team's favourite farm shops
More and more of us are choosing to buy produce directly from farms.
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Eliamos review: A five-star retreat on the island made famous by Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
A new hotel-cum-villa concept on the Greek island of Kefalonia is the perfect place to base yourself for some rest and relaxation.
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Under the arches of the Grand Palais, Hermès proves it's the master of leather
Photographs by Christope Taniere; videos by Louis Sheridan.
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Fouquet’s New York review: Have you ever wondered what it would feel like to live inside a macaroon?
Country Life's Travel Editor visits the French hotel making waves in the Big Apple.
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Colour photographs of Gertrude Jekyll’s garden, rediscovered in the Country Life Archive, offer a rare glimpse of what it looked like at the peak of her fame
In 1997, Country Life published a set of chromatic photographs of Gertrude Jekyll’s Munstead Wood garden that had lain undisturbed in our archive for nearly a century. We have reproduced the pictures, corresponding feature and captions here.
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Country Life LIVE at Crufts: Meet the small and hardy English dog that's just been crowned the best terrier
Country Life is reporting live from Crufts at the NEC in Birmingham. Join us for all the tales — and tails — from the world's most famous dog show.
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In the battle of travel tour operator versus AI, who will win?
Country Life's Travel Editor talks to two premium tour operators to find out how they're faring in the battle against AI.
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The winter Olympians of the natural world
Meet the penguins that like to luge and their animals friends that could give any Olympic athlete a run for their money.
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The only thing better than a stately home is a stately home in wooden miniature
Meet George Barham — the gifted woodcarver who can turn your family pile into a wooden masterpiece.
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A 350-year-old estate in Barbados that’s hosted royals and Helen Mirren, furnished with 400 potted plants
Oh, and it comes with 400 pot plants.
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This Hollywood star's home in the Canadian wilderness is now an exclusive-use lodge
The vast, open spaces of Canada’s British Columbia can make you feel very small, but very much alive. Photographs by Allison LoBalbo and Brice Portolano.
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Couples are changing how they holiday — even on honeymoon
Rising costs and limited airline capacity means the current generation of newlyweds are having to think before they book.
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How Coco Chanel's crush on a polo-playing Parisian inspired a revolutionary handbag and fine jewellery line
The launch of Chanel's 2026 Coco Crush jewellery collection was lauded in Hollywood, but its origins and inspirations lie hundreds of miles away, in the designer's home country of France.
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The Cotton House review: If you're going to be the only hotel on Mustique, you better be great
The definition of pressure is running the only hotel on the Caribbean's most famous island. Rosie Paterson checks in to find out how they're faring.
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New kids on the block: London's hotel boom and the new openings around the world to have on your radar
From Scotland to the Seychelles, there are myriad new hotel openings this year to inspire your travels.
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Badrutt's Palace Hotel review: The beating heart of St Moritz’s jet-set social scene has never put a foot wrong
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An 'architectural masterpiece' on New York's Fifth Avenue — and Ralph Lauren could be your neighbour
1107 5th Avenue is a pre-War cooperative with a storied history and starry list of residents, past and present.
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Come rain or shine: Burberry’s Gabardine Capsule collection celebrates the art of dressing for Britain’s changeable skies
Burberry is celebrating the revolutionary fabric its founder invented with a new collection designed for adventures in Britain's countryside — and its unpredictable weather.
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Inside the 19th century château in St Tropez where hotel guests are ferried to the beach in Rolls-Royces and season four of The White Lotus is about to start filming
The previous three seasons of the hit TV show have all taken place at a Four Seasons property, but season four is now believed to be set inside Château de la Messardière, an Airelles hotel.
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'I first read this as a teenager and was open-mouthed at the sharp satire and the normalising of deep eccentricity': The books that the Country Life team return to again and again and again
Have you made a resolution to read more in 2026? Members of the Country Life team reveal the fiction novels they've turned to time and time again.
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A Venetian palazzo that entranced John Ruskin and was painted by Monet is for sale — but beware, it’s cursed
Palazzo Dario, on Venice's fabled Grand Canal, is an architectural gem, but new owners will have to grapple with its unfortunate past.
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Country Life's top 10 travel articles of 2025, including the Scottish survival experience beloved by David Beckham and what a A-list ski resort does when it stops getting snow
Country Life's Travel Editor takes a look back at the most read travel pieces of 2025.
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What does the future hold for the exclusive Caribbean island that shuns shoes, spectacle and social media
Rosie Paterson visits Mustique, the Caribbean island that has beguiled and baffled for more than half a century.
