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Summertime in Britain demands a good picnic and at this week’s prize-scooper, The Olde Bell Inn in Berkshire, you’ll get more than a selection of cold cuts. Try a fully fledged outdoor kitchen, manned by chefs who know how to cook up fine-dining feasts alfresco…
Style Inn-keeping with tradition
Setting Thames riverside village
Why this week? The kitchen [...]
May merged into June, June slipped into July; suddenly summer’s upon us, and all we can think about is sunshine and siestas. Our great escape looms unplanned, somewhere on the September horizon perhaps, but in the meantime, we’re craving a restorative mini-break. A boutique Berkshire bolthole with a spa, pool and golf course will more [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
There’s animal magic in the air at Mr & Mrs Smith this week, so prick your ears and wag your tails for our brand new selection of pet-friendly hotels. In the past, we’ve picked out dream wedding venues, family getaways, budget boutiques and safari stays – and now we’ve rounded up 133 luxury retreats, [...]
Welcome to week three of our celebration of the greatest, goodest and gorgeousest of the Smith boutique-hotel collection. (In case you’ve missed our first fortnight, we’ve already covered a fabulous Portuguese farmhouse in Alentejo and a superb self-catering cottage in Norfolk). This week, we’ve been wondering, ‘if we fled the Smith offices in London, and [...]
