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This summer down under, the calendar of music festivals in Australia is hotter than ever, with a killer line-up of shows around the nation, from laneway dances to three-day rock sessions by the sea. So party people, here’s a little teaser… MEREDITH MUSIC FESTIVAL Celebrating its 21st year, Meredith Music Festival takes place in a [...]
While most of the world gobbles down turkey like there’s no tomorrow (or indeed Boxing Day), some prefer not to eat turkey at all – given a choice of festive fowl, I’d never pick turkey. Never. It could sit plumply on the supermarket subs’ bench till kingdom come for all I care, forever in the [...]
Well, call us party animals if you like: this past week has seen not one, but two exciting Smith events light up local calendars on either side of the pond. Last Wednesday saw our Italy guide launch party at B&B Italia in London; but the night before, over in Florida, we celebrated our affair with [...]
Fresh from his recent undercover Smith mission to review Geejam hotel in Jamaica, New York master of spin Lucien Etori gives us a great big helping of the gorgeous Caribbean island that’s inspired greats from Bob Marley and Ian Fleming to Usain Bolt. One of the reasons I was effervescently excited about this trip to Jamaica, [...]
Check out Smith’s style-savvy selection of Melbourne day trips, including our top five art galleries within easy reach of the city. Base yourself in a boutique hotel in Melbourne, then mission out to rural Victoria to slake your culture lust. Alluring architecture and design, gorgeous gardens, enticing vineyards and cool cafés await, as well as [...]
The Bloody Mary: probably the best hangover cure known to man. Fact. Also, probably the single best drink you can craft from in-flight trolley ingredients (or, if you’re totally lazy, from Belvedere’s pre-macerated Bloody Mary vodka, right). Fact 2.0. Also, in the wrong hands, potentially the most repulsive, godawful hash of a cocktail on God’s [...]
It’s amore: Mr & Mrs Smith’s love affair with Italy is official (ok, that by itself isn’t really ‘news’, but read on…). Our latest (and, may we modestly suggest, greatest) hotel guidebook brings you 32 hand-picked hotels in Italy, including traditional Puglian trulli, gorgeous guesthouses, spectacular lakeside villas, wonderful farmhouses and dazzling city-centre palazzos. As ever, we [...]
For round two of our Sri Lankan flavour festival, Amangalla boutique hotel in Galle, Sri Lanka, shares recipes for a tasty beetroot curry and refreshing mint sambol, the perfect accompaniments to Wednesday’s seafood curry. BEETROOT CURRY INGREDIENTS 1 tbs vegetable oil 1 onion, chopped 5 garlic cloves, cut into thin strips 2 tbs curry powder [...]
On our last scouting trip in search of hotels in Sri Lanka, the Smith team soaked up the local flavours with a cooking class at Amangalla boutique hotel, set in a historic fort in the coastal town of Galle, three hours south of capital Colombo. Here we share a no-brainer seafood curry recipe… Admittedly, it can [...]
On a recent 17-hour stopover in Singapore en route from London to Melbourne, Smith discovered that the Lion City’s charms can be discovered in a day. We recommend you book a hotel in Singapore for lengthier stopovers, but if you’re not overnighting in town, here’s our guide to making every hour count… TOUCHDOWN Changi Airport is [...]
