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It’s fun playing tourist in your hometown – especially when the sun is out. No, I don’t for a moment mean queuing up at Madame Tussaud’s (what is with that obsession for waxworks when there are so many better things to do in London?), let alone hitting senses-assaulting Piccadilly Circus. I am talking about seeing [...]
All aboard the eccentric carriage of culinary and cocktail curiosities making its way across the UK courtesy of Hendrick’s. Its bonkers bar-cum-dining room rolled into Edinburgh today until Sunday; Manchester, 30 July–2 August; London, 1–4 October. No, we haven’t been drinking – not today at any rate…
Ever imagined munching aphrodisiac lavender marshmallows? Or rose bush [...]
Bolly corks are flying around Smith HQ like Wimbledon tennis balls today, and the level of group-hugging going on is almost sinister. Why such festivity? No, it’s not just Prince William’s right royal name-thievery earlier this week, we’re as pleased as Punch, as happy as Larry and as, er, delighted as Delia because the Smith [...]
KITEBOARD PRO
Date 1-5 July
Place Tarifa, Spain
Style Elemental acrobatics
Setting Andalucian surf
On the southern tip of Spain, Tarifa has rising kudos as a sun-kissed weekend party town and is now a hot spot for windsurfers and kitesurfers - the Strait of Gibraltar channels perfect, warm winds right onto the sandy beaches here. Since 2005, it has hosted [...]
A recent straw poll among my female friends on the topic of ‘what’s most attractive in a man’ (taken for professional not personal reasons, honest) yielded some surprising results. A GSOH and a way with shelving may not be as essential as I had been led to believe – the three most desirable male characteristics [...]
If you’re out and about in London town this weekend, and, even better, staying in Kit Kemp’s elegant and exuberant Charlotte Street Hotel, then may we politely suggest you lug your shapely booty over to the second Charlotte Street Festival?
On Saturday, the famed Fitzrovia thoroughfare is closing off to traffic and opening up to style-savvy [...]
OK, if all of our UK and Australian readers could cover their eyes and ears now – this one’s for our friends in the US only. All covered? Good, then we’ll continue…
Mr & Mrs Smith has teamed up with stateside epicurean expert Dean & DeLuca to launch the Global Gourmet, a new ongoing promotion that [...]
It’s been, you might say, a busy week.
Last weekend, Mr & Mrs Smith cut the proverbial ribbon on their latest acquisition. Not a hotel for once, but a gleaming new office in Melbourne. From its marbled halls*, our all-singing, occasionally dancing Australian team will be hunting down the most glamorous, most homely, and most all-out [...]
Some of London’s best gardens appear for just five days a year – at the annual RHS Chelsea Flower Show, kicking off this year on Tuesday 19 May. Green-fingered royals and celebs mingle with young-fogey hipsters rediscovering home-grown gardening trends, there’s inspiration and planting plans for your own patch of turf, and champagne and [...]
The Pelham shows off its Spring Vintage Collection this weekend, when Ooh la la Vintage and Madame Tra La La sashay into its pretty parlours with their affordable vintage buys and wise investment dressing tips.
Saturday 25 April and Sunday 26 April (10am-6pm)
The Pelham Hotel, 15 Cromwell Place, South Kensington, London SW7 2LA
Last month, I gave [...]
