Where should you go in 2026? Anywhere that you can just kick back and relax

Country Life's Rosie Paterson joins the podcast.

A mountain top in the most remote part of Canada? It's just another week at work for the intrepid Rosie Paterson.
A mountain top in the most remote part of Canada? It's just another week at work for the intrepid Rosie Paterson (pictured on the left).
(Image credit: Rosie Paterson / Future)
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An off-grid lodge in the Canadian Wilderness? The colourful charm of Germany? A weekend jaunt to New York? Or perhaps a palazzo in Florence?

Rosie Paterson, who is both Country Life's Travel Editor and Digital Content Director, has done all of this and more in 2025, and she joins James Fisher on this week's Country Life Podcast to talk about the best places to go in 2026.

The good news is that Rosie reveals that the new trend in travel — if you can call it that — is actually an anti-trend: instead, it's rejection of 'what you ought to do' in favour of just doing what you want to do.

'We don't really like like the phrase "fly and flop",' says Rosie, 'but the older I get, the more convinced I am that everyone should go on holiday once a year, if they can, and just do nothing. Do the dreaded fly-and-flop holiday and just switch off.'

With that in mind, Rosie shares her favourite discoveries, tips and anecdotes from her last 12 months of jetsetting. Enjoy!

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Canadian wilderness pictures
(Image credit: Rosie Paterson for Country Life)

Episode credits

Host: James Fisher
Guest: Rosie Paterson
Editor and producer: Toby Keel
Music: JuliusH via Pixabay

Toby Keel
Toby Keel

Toby Keel is Country Life's Digital Director, and has been running the website and social media channels since 2016. A former sports journalist, he writes about property, cars, lifestyle, travel, nature.