Get the low-down from the original style-seekers' latest good-time hunting expeditions, find destination inspiration and insider tips from around the world. Welcome to the official Smith blog: we hope you enjoy your stay
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 [...]
London On Film Festival 2009 launches this June at the Lexi Cinema in NW10, as part of the Mayor’s Story of London Festival.
From Tuesday 16 to Sunday 21 June Chamberlayne Road will give La Croisette a run for its money with film, debate, art, music and live performances for audiences of all ages, including screenings [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
Ok, so not all of you were taken in by our April Fools joke (Mr & Mrs Smith’s bendy-bus boutique hotels in Dubai), but if it piqued your interest in the UAE’s shopping, dining and tourism capital, Dubai, then you might like to learn a bit more about a real hotel there: Desert Palm, a [...]
