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What do you call a Mexican who’s lost his car?* What cheese do you use to lure a bear up a mountain?** Where can you hear great gags like these and more? At The George in Rye in East Sussex on the 23rd of September!
Style Quirky-smart Regency inn
Setting Cobbled Cinque Ports streets
A night of giggles [...]
We’ve been on the road again this month, turning stones the land over to report back with a handful of new hotels. Ready to plan that holiday? You soon will be…
First up, in Italy, we hit the Amalfi Coast: allow us to introduce Capo la Gala (left), an exclusive nautical retreat on the Bay of [...]
With a white Christmas fully on the cards, we know of a place we’d like to be snowed in at: by the crackling fires and cosy sofas, and feasting on the hearty fare at The Royal Oak in West Sussex…
Style Hearth-warming village pub
Setting Pretty East Lavant lane
Why this week? This is one of our new [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
If, like the huge number of Brits planning on taking a ’staycation’ this year, you just want to stay on home turf, let us point you in the right direction. For those eschewing overseas travel but still craving coastline and sunny climes, it’s little surprise is the home-grown holidaymakers’ number-one UK destination this summer. Soft [...]
You know what big fans we are of our own Great British coastline here, and it’s not like we need much persuading to dig out our buckets and spades and storm the UK’s best beaches at the first hint of a little weak sunshine.
Part of the pleasure is tucking into that classic beach and on-the-pier [...]
At a time when we’re all looking under our sofas for pound coins, what could be more welcome to us penny-pinchers than a hotel that’s affordable as well as stylish and luxurious? Well, a cheap chic hotel that’s just a short drive away, of course. Following on from Monday’s round-up of Europe’s best bargains, here’s [...]
First things first: Happy New Year from Mr & Mrs Smith! Here’s wishing you a travel-happy, free-roaming, sunshine-drenched, world-exploring, high-flying, far-reaching 2009…
Every time we publish a new hotel write-up by Mr & Mrs Smith, we’ll let you know here on the Smith Travel Blog, so you can keep pace with our team of travel spies [...]
Ah – the Great British seaside, a holiday institution that has seen more revivals and reinventions than Madonna’s on-stage wardrobe. With the Euro gaining strength, the credit crunch biting (anyone else sick of hearing that term already?) and growing interest in train travel and supporting local enterprise, making the most of our very own coast [...]
