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It can be tough sometimes, working for boutique travel experts, whose daily tasks include jetting around the world, seeking out glamour-soaked hotels in wow-factor destinations. No really, it can. Especially when said work involves testing out our luxurious hotels’ facilities, just to check they are still as top-notch as ever - the spa for instance, [...]
LEWES BONFIRE
Date 5 November
Place Lewes, East Sussex
Style Pyro pandemonium
Setting Not-so-sleepy Sussex streets
Indulge your pagan and your pyromaniac urges with the UK’s greatest bonfire bacchanale.
Event Highlight The Bonfire Societies signal the start of the processions by racing barrels of burning tar down the High Street at 6.30pm, after which the whole town seems to parade past [...]
Simmer down, people – this is, after all, about the freebies you get with consecutive sleeps (nothing to do with chain-laying hotties, nor plural hay bales). But we’re excited. Three nights for the price of two: that’s what we’ve been doling out to Daily Telegraph readers, weaving smartly Smith-like passwords into three issues of the [...]
As summer slowly slips away, and the music and alfresco festivals have dismantled their seasonal gazebos to make room for the fallen leaves lacing our London streets. But it’ll take more than a chilly autumnal breeze to keep us Smiths from venturing out to savour the gastronomic delights of the very first London Restaurant Festival [...]
Of all the fabulous finery that billowed and swished its way down the catwalk at London Fashion Week 2009, Smith HQ fell hardest for Erdem’s whimsical watercolour dresses. In particular, the demure and divine ankle-length silk gowns with their daubs of jewel-bright colour, available from Net-a-Porter - well, before they (predictably) sold out that is. [...]
We Smiths are a sophisticated bunch, right? We know our velouté from our mirepoix, our Miu Miu from our Missoni and we certainly know our Chablis from our chardonnay. So when Juliet and I received an invitation to take part in a Call My Bluff-style wine quiz at Westfield’s new Meat & Wine Co restaurant, [...]
At the start of the summer, we asked luxury perfumer Linda Pilkington to share her scents of smell (and a few other things). As the founder of Ormonde Jayne on London’s Old Bond Street, she’s journeyed to far-flung frangipani-lined shores and knows more than a thing or two about travelling in style. We delve into [...]
Earlier this week, the Smith editorial team was whisked around the capital on a mad dash to some of our lovely London hotels. After a lively breakfast at Blakes, a look-in at the Gore’s ecclesiastically elegant bar and a tour through the wonky floors of historic Hazlitt’s (not to mention a celeb spot or two [...]
You know what you like to buy and you’re no sucker for marketing… Do you shun the red sale stickers on discounted produce at the supermarket? Do you laugh in the face of Bogof offers in Boots, resisting the urge to hoard toothpaste for the sake of a pound or so? Well, this is one [...]
Enrolling at Smith school this September we have a selection of star pupils in the shape of a Texan treat or two and an aeronautics-embracing affair in Hampshire…
