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With all the love in the air here in the UK lately, we’ve been on the hunt for some rural romance. Just as well, then, that the new recruits to our Smith & Friends collection are bucolic boltholes, perfect for isolated escapes à deux…
THE HUNTING LODGE Dordogne
With the Dronne river at the bottom of the [...]
Sydney spice master Christine Manfield takes her food – and her travel – very seriously. When she’s not at the stoves of Darlinghurst hotspot Universal, Christine leads gourmet tours through India, south-east Asia and Tunisia, and draws on her past life as a teacher to write pitch-perfect cookbooks (she’s currently polishing her sixth).
So who better [...]
Love at first sight. It happens. Juliet and I are proof of that. Not that we fell head over heels for each other, you understand (though JK, if you’re reading this, I hold you in the highest regard), but for a hotel. And not just any hotel: Château La Thuilière in the Dordogne. Our [...]
We took to our Vespas this month and whizzed around Italy’s sun-baked shores, sparkling lagoons and historic cities to bring you some hot new Italian hotels. Elsewhere, we took detours both near and far-flung to France, Spain, Laos and Australia, all in the name of good hotel hunting…
In Venice, we went to check out Palazzina [...]
The August bank holiday (sorry non-UK readers, you may look away now) creeps up on you sometimes, suddenly popping onto the horizon the week before it strikes, and reminding you that it’s the last bona fide long-weekend opportunity before Christmas. Not got a getaway arranged yet? Oh well, never mind, you’ll never find anywhere with [...]
Beloved Smith & Friends self-catering property Château de Lartigolle in Gers is known for hosting special social shindigs, and this summer they really wowed us with their Burlesque event. Hope you like my and Gavin Mitchell’s snapshots of this rather sexy soirée.
As well as serving a feast in their party-perfect vaulted cellar, London’s Tassel Club [...]
It’s here, and we’ve had a launch party to prove it. Mr & Mrs Smith’s latest guidebook features 31 hotels in 12 destinations around France, is packed with gorgeous original photography and irreverent hotel reviews, and is genuinely a thing of beauty. (If we do say so ourselves.) What better excuse for a shindig?
Last week, [...]
Ooh la la, vive la France, c’est la vie – plus any other linguistic cliché you care to cull from the French dictionary – it’s Bastille Day across the Channel! While Parisians line the Champs-Elysées to watch the traditional 14 Juillet parade, we prefer to celebrate by reminding you of some of our favourite things [...]
In honour of the newest tome on the Smith bookshelf of fame (our France guidebook, which hit shops yesterday), we’re keeping our French flavour this week with a trip to Cap Estel, a peninsula-perched hedonist’s playground on the Côte d’Azur…
Style Glamorous Med mansion
Setting Lushly landscaped Eze clifftop
Why this week? Firstly, because it’s one of the [...]
We’re so good to you – not only have we made you a gorgeous new guidebook covering the best boutique hotels in France, but because today’s the day our latest choose-your-own-adventure tome hits the shops, Mr & Mrs Smith has joined forces with equally super-stylish British brands Ormonde Jayne and Ettinger to celebrate the book [...]
