Archive for June, 2009
Any eco-warrior worth their salt would rather eat their beach towel than stay in an environmentally unfriendly bolthole. After all, how can you kick back and relax if you’re worrying about whether the light bulbs are energy-efficient, if there’s a recycling program or whether your dazzlingly clean bath has been scrubbed with hostile cleaning products? [...]
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Posted in Boutique hotels, Cornwall, Destinations, Eco travel, Insider interviews, Self-catering, Uncategorized, United Kingdom | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
If there’s one thing Team Smith love (after a fabulous boutique hotel, a good rare steak, and a darn fine cup of coffee), it’s a gorgeous swimming pool. A shimmering stretch of water to sun-bask next to, sup sundowners beside, or just to admire the reflections of a starlit sky in. Occasionally, we’ve even been [...]
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Posted in Barcelona, Boutique hotels, Destinations, Europe, Features, France, Greece, Ibiza, Italy, Languedoc-Roussillon, Sicily, Spain, Top 10s, Tuscany | 7 Comments »
Just as we’re excited about the new additions to our collection of Welsh hotels, so there’s also a buzz around a new, equally Welsh film, Sleep Furiously.
Launched on the festival circuit last year, Gideon Koppel’s picture about the plight of farming in mid-Wales, where Koppel grew up, is a heartfelt documentary that has been impressing [...]
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Posted in Boutique hotels, Brecon Beacons, Uncategorized, United Kingdom, Wales | 2 Comments »
If you’re out and about in London town this weekend, and, even better, staying in Kit Kemp’s elegant and exuberant Charlotte Street Hotel, then may we politely suggest you lug your shapely booty over to the second Charlotte Street Festival?
On Saturday, the famed Fitzrovia thoroughfare is closing off to traffic and opening up to style-savvy [...]
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Posted in Boutique hotels, Destinations, Eating & drinking, Events, London, Uncategorized, United Kingdom, Worth getting out of bed for | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
I confess I’ve been out of the office for most of this month, sampling some of Smith’s spectacular honeymoon hotels in Thailand and Bali (but more on that later – I’ll just say for now that Amandari in jungly Ubud may have just become my favourite place in the world, and that the spikily pungent [...]
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Posted in Barcelona, Boutique hotels, News, Portugal, Spain, Uncategorized, Wales | 4 Comments »
A new eco deco company paints London green, just in time for World Environment Day
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Posted in Design, Devon, Eco travel, London, Self-catering | No Comments »