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Give us one wish, and we’ll ask for more. Give us one (bank) holiday and we start planning our next getaway. With the call of duty somewhat muffled, we’re busy daydreaming of towering temples, liquid-gold sunsets and ravishing retreats styled with Cambodian cool. Hôtel de la Paix, in the hot-off-the-press, brand spanking new Mr & [...]
Our TuneSmith, Rob Wood, the ears behind our sexy CD collection, selects the soundtrack to the bank holiday weekend…
ALBUM OF THE MONTH
The Optimist by New Young Pony Club
Why This pop comes with added bounce
When A pogo is in order
Pop music you can dance to is always a good thing. New Young Pony Club happen [...]
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Mr & Mrs Smith are on the hunt for a full-time marketing executive to join our fast-paced marketing and PR department in London. Our current executive, the sublime Sabine, has been seduced by our Melbourne office, [...]
As the election looms closer, we swing-o-meter fans are thinking of new and inventive ways to see in results night. We’ve already told you about election events in London, including The Arch’s MP-faced eclairs and Brown’s Hotel’s Commons-related canapés, and now St James’s Hotel and Club wants to play…
Anyone up for a bit of election [...]
If, like us, you’ve forgotten that this coming weekend is an extra-long bank holiday extravaganza of sun-basking laziness, and are currently lamenting your failure to organise anywhere to do your lazing, then fear not. We’ve had a chat with the ever-efficient Smith Travel Team and they’ve given us an up-to-the-minute breakdown of which hot hotels [...]
All the aviation-avoiding adventures of the last week have made us fearful of flying, afraid that we too will get caught out, stranded abroad with only sheep for company. So, here in the UK, we’re turning our attentions a little closer to home…
Why this week? There’s no stopping us getting to Northamptonshire and so to [...]
We’ve all told the odd white lie about why we’re home late, but ‘sorry, love, a volcano erupted’ doesn’t normally hold water. Until last week, that is. Here’s my own tale of enforced overground travel, hire-car hell, and unruly sheep. I think it gives an insight into the kind of journey that tens of thousands [...]
The geological antics of the last few days have had us all scrambling around in search of alternative modes of transport.* When the skies are out, man has no choice but to turn to the seas, roads and tracks…
We’ve sung the praises of traincations in the past, but that was before The Volcano. As tonnes [...]
Election fever is gripping the capital. Well, by ‘election fever’ we mean ‘a faint awareness of political events’, and by ‘gripping’, we mean ‘inspiring at least two special hotel events in’. Anyway, we’re excited.
First up, the historic, Olga Polizzi-styled Brown’s Hotel in London’s Mayfair is giving us all an alternative to sitting at home shouting [...]
Smith’s recent love-in with ELLE Decoration travel supplement wouldn’t have been possible without our city spies updating us on where to go, what to do, and who to do it with.
One such trusted trend-reporter is Philip Gaedicke, based in Berlin. Philip opened his new boutique, SOTO, just last week, and since we couldn’t be there [...]
