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While most of the world gobbles down turkey like there’s no tomorrow (or indeed Boxing Day), some prefer not to eat turkey at all – given a choice of festive fowl, I’d never pick turkey. Never. It could sit plumply on the supermarket subs’ bench till kingdom come for all I care, forever in the [...]

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Postcard from: the New Forest

Wednesday, October 12th, 2011

If you went down to the woods this summer, you’ll have been sure of a big surprise: namely The Pig, a country-house corker of a hotel in the heart of Hampshire’s New Forest. We were lucky enough to be passing through…

The Pig is a story of sustainability, with a menu that aims to come entirely [...]

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Oh, how we like to spoil you. We’ve been skipping around the globe to bring you a cherry-picked collection of stylish new stays…

Brush up on your Spanish lessons as we say hola to two scorching hot havens in Barcelona. Edgy Ohla Hotel (pictured left) radiates classic Catalan cool, and flaunts a rooftop pool and two [...]

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Last-minute bank holiday hotels

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

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 [...]

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Fashion-friendly March marvels

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

With the last of the fashion weeks causing catwalk-and-couture chaos in Paris, we’ve found some supermodel-worthy stays, dreamed up by designers usually famed for their frocks…

Christian Lacroix takes over in the capital of couture, Paris. He’s transformed the 400-year-old building of the Hôtel Notre Dame into a designer devotion to the city’s famous cathedral. He’s [...]

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Hotel of the Week: Aviator

Friday, November 13th, 2009

We’ve taken to the skies this week and, after looping the loop over farm and field, we have landed in Hampshire to award our Hotel of the Week accolade to one-of-a-kind aeronautical affair, the Aviator hotel…

Style: Silver belle
Setting: Airfields of Farnborough
Why this week? Until the end of the year, you can stay Friday and Saturday [...]

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Lovely doubly boutique luxury for less

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

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 [...]

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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…

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