In the diary: tomato warfare
Monday, August 17th, 2009LA TOMATINA Date 26 August Place Buñol, Spain Style Paint the town red Setting Fruit-soaked Mediterranean square
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Visit Painswick this month. You’ll thank us.
Thursday, August 6th, 2009My heart belongs to Painswick. No, it’s not a tubby waistcoated Dickens character, it’s an adorable tiny town in the South Cotswolds. I’m a shallow soul really. A gorgeous boutique hotel, a sprinkling of couldn’t-be-cuter shops (Ha’Penny Antiques, left), an excellent deli and a country pub and I’m smitten. Throw in your chocolate-box Cotswold-stone village [...]
Culture and cuisine, on the Serpentine circuit
Thursday, July 16th, 2009It’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 [...]
A deliciously curious experience
Friday, July 10th, 2009All 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 [...]
In the diary: Spanish highs
Thursday, June 25th, 2009KITEBOARD 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. [...]
Social mixing: St James’s Hotel cocktail class
Friday, June 19th, 2009A 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 [...]
Mr & Mrs Smith joins forces with Dean & DeLuca to create the Global Gourmet
Monday, May 11th, 2009OK, 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 [...]
Inside Sydney #1
Friday, May 8th, 2009Since 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 [...]
In the diary: going Dutch
Wednesday, April 15th, 2009QUEEN’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 [...]
Postcard from Dorset: checking out the Hive Beach Café
Friday, March 27th, 2009You 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 [...]
