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Smith Trips: Peggy probes Paris

Saturday, September 6th, 2008

Our indomitable head of hotel relations, Peggy, just landed back in Smith HQ from a mission to find the crème de la crème of hotels in Paris. Anthony harassed her for the luxury lowdown…

Anthony So Peggy, you’ve been noseying around Paris for Mr & Mrs Smith – where did you go and what did you [...]

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Ibiza uncovered: beyond clubland

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

Since we’re musing on music this week, and the Ibiza closing parties are looming on the event horizon, we thought we’d spend Friday pondering the other – quieter, greener, more grown-up – side of Ibizan-island life. (NB If you’re the ‘I party-hard, I’ll sleep when I’m dead, and I wanna stay up till dawn with [...]

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Hotel or house swap?

Sunday, August 17th, 2008

Well, hotels obviously. But then I’m biased. Thing is what do you do if you need to stay away for a longer period, with the whole family when you’re going to New York? A house swap can be one answer – and the best thing about our recent spell in Brooklyn was that it meant [...]

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DIY postcards

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

I found this great website to make postcards from your own snapshots…
Go to ppme.co.uk, upload your favourite holiday snap, write your own ‘Wish you were here?’ type message and they print and send your image as a postcard for only 99p.
It beats the usual cheesy purple sunset shots and having to find stamps/postbox, plus [...]

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We [heart] New York…
James Lohan: “It lives up to the postcard like no other city in the world. It really is that big and I’m mostly excited about the collection as I can now visit and get the best out of the place as it’s definitely what you know when you arrive in NYC [...]

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