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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Since we’ve been in Australia, launching Mr & Mrs Smith’s new venture down under, we’ve been lucky enough to cross paths with some of Sydney and Melbourne’s most influential movers and shakers. Never one to miss an opportunity, I’ve shamelessly used our chats to plug them for information about their home cities, and over the [...]
QUEEN’S DAY
Date 30 April
Place Amsterdam, Netherlands
Style A right royal knees-up
Setting Clubs & canals
You might not expect a head of state’s birthday to inspire a 24-hour party, but Queen’s Day does exactly that. The date, which still honours Juliana, late mother of the present queen, Beatrix, has become a national day of orange madness. [...]
You might remember a couple of weeks back we spent a day raving about some of Britain’s Best Beach Cafés. As threatened promised at the time, Mr & Mrs Smith paid a visit to some of them, for – ahem – research purposes (nothing to do with the lure of knickerbocker glories, marshmallow-pink prawns, fresh [...]
SNOWBOMBING
Date 29 March to 4 April
Place Mayrhofen, Austria
Style Boards, barns and bands
Setting Alpine winter wonderland
Now a decade old, Snowbombing fills the Austrian mountain resort of Mayrhofen with parties, DJs and bands for six days in April, attracting snowboarders and fellow revelers from around the world. Snowbombing has close links to Rob Da Bank’s Bestival in [...]
Ever since our trip to Hawksmoor restaurant, I’ve been thinking about meat. Not constantly (that would be weird and worrying), but every time I’ve sat down for a sirloin or test-chewed a T-bone, my mind has wondered back to Will Beckett’s East London steakhouse and the astonishing beef he serves. Hawksmoor’s meat comes from The [...]
Postcards, schmostcards. We say, forget that faff for stamps and address books: capture all your happiest holiday moments on a Flip Video pocket camcorder, and bore everyone back home in full talking technicolour.
The clever in-built software lets you create great-looking home movies quick-smart; then you can swiftly upload these online or show friends through your [...]
