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Now that you’ve had my top tips on How to… drive in the Alps, you’re ready to test your newfound skills in some real-life situations. So here are five fantastic Alpine driving routes I try to take whenever I’m in the mountains – strictly for Smith Ski research purposes, you understand:
Geneva – Chamonix – Martigny
Distance: [...]
Every time we publish a new hotel review on Mr & Mrs Smith, we’ll let you know here on the Smith Travel Blog, so you can keep pace with our team of travel spies and style insiders on their global roams. We visit every boutique hotel, country guesthouse, chic beach hut and luxury stay in [...]
Ah, Mondays. Don’t you just love to hate ‘em? Definitely the best day of the week to spend a few idle online moments casting your eyes around in search of sunny pictures, faraway inspiration and otherwise entertaining distractions from the daily grind – presumably what brought you to our balmy travel blog shores in the [...]
We’ve started a new relationship - no, we’re not cheating on Mr Smith: we’re contributing to the slick travel blog at WeJetSet, an online store selling all the gizmos and gadgets a modern traveller could possible desire. (The Maharishi jackets, super-cool Lomo cameras and Krink laptop sleeves have already caught our eye as potential Christmas [...]
Car adverts invariably show a gleaming vehicle purring unhindered along an empty highway that twists and turns through magnificent scenery. Real life is, of course, a bit different. The reality is that the average speed of a car in London’s rush-hour traffic is seven miles an hour, and the nearest that many motorists get to [...]
Mr & Mrs Smith’s hotel relations manager, Maggie, just got back from a week in Morocco where she and Peggy took a quick whistle-stop tour of Smith’s Marrakech hotel collection, and also unearthed a new range of ravishing riads and gorgeous Maroc palaces.…
So, Maggie, you’ve recently landed from Marrakech – bring anything new back in [...]
Last week, to much long-time-coming fanfare, the capital’s ultimate retail behemoth opened its doors and invited shopaholics to prise open their hearts (and wallets) for the all-singing (Leona Lewis) all-dancing (Sugababes) opening of Westfield. Europe’s largest shopping centre comprises a 43-acre patch of West London north of Shepherd’s Bush, in White City and has all [...]
Our man in the East, the redoubtable writer, food-blogger, and high-life liver Aun Koh, has been busy roaming the wilds of China in search of more stylish stays for the Smith collection. And, judging by this month’s quintet of new hotels, he’s really come up trumps.
The weekend after next sees one of our favourite events taking place in the Lake District – the World’s Biggest Liar contest – TONY NAYLOR brings you the lowdown on a thrilling event that narrowly missed making it into our European events calender, Smith 52. Watch this space for more insider info on idiosyncratic and [...]
Alain Ducasse - a longtime leading light on the culinary scene – hardly needs an introduction. Here, we talk to the mighty Michelin-starred chef behind projects as varied as Le Louis XV in Monaco and, recently, a quartet of French country inns, including Smith stays Domaine des Andéols in Provence and L’Andana in Tuscany. Alain [...]
