Get the low-down from the original style-seekers' latest good-time hunting expeditions, find destination inspiration and insider tips from around the world. Welcome to the official Smith blog: we hope you enjoy your stay
It’s a familiar dilemma for Mrs Smiths everywhere: you’ve booked a romantic city break but on planning your vacation wardrobe, find it somewhat lacking in luxury boutique-hotel finesse. We think we’ve found the solution – meet Girl Meets Dress (GMD), a website offering designer threads for hire, with fresh frocks in stock weekly.
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Mr & Mrs Smith love sniffing out the world’s best places to stay and play, and part of our good-time-hunting agenda is to find the parks, picnic spots and on-the-pulse shops that only your best friend would tell you about.
So, in the spirit of sharing, we tracked down expert perfumer Linda Pilkington to find [...]
Ok, so not all of you were taken in by our April Fools joke (Mr & Mrs Smith’s bendy-bus boutique hotels in Dubai), but if it piqued your interest in the UAE’s shopping, dining and tourism capital, Dubai, then you might like to learn a bit more about a real hotel there: Desert Palm, a [...]
For those of you who are still in any doubt as to the veracity of our little news story about Boris Johnson and Mr & Mrs Smith’s bendy-bus boutique hotel yesterday, just a reminder: we were joking.
It was, of course, April Fools Day. Despite fears that you’d see straight through any japery after we set [...]
Have we got news for you: Boris Johnson is often accused of being a bit of a twit, but Londoners will be laughing on the other side of their faces when they hear he’s poised to turn a pretty profit out of the costly London bendy-bus
decommissioning debacle.
Boris had the brilliant idea of inviting a [...]
Lara Dunston is the brains behind the Cool Travel Guide blog and has written or contributed to 40 travel guidebooks (for DK, Lonely Planet, Rough Guides, Footprint, Insight, AA Guides and Thomas Cook) and writes for magazines and newspapers all over the world, including National Geographic Traveler, Wanderlust, Get Lost, Lifestyle+Travel, Paperplane, The Independent and [...]
