Just as we’re excited about the new additions to our collection of Welsh hotels, so there’s also a buzz around a new, equally Welsh film, Sleep Furiously.
Launched on the festival circuit last year, Gideon Koppel’s picture about the plight of farming in mid-Wales, where Koppel grew up, is a heartfelt documentary that has been impressing [...]
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Monday, January 5th, 2009
Every time we publish a new hotel write-up from one of our panel of independent reviewers on the Mr & Mrs Smith site, we’ll let you know here on the blog, so you can keep pace with our team of travel spies and style insiders on their global roams. We visit every hotel in our [...]
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Posted in Boutique hotels, Cape Town, Independent reviews, South Africa, Uncategorized | 2 Comments »
Sunday, December 28th, 2008
Yes, that’s right – it’s new-review time again! Every time we publish an anonymously conducted hotel review by Mr & Mrs Smith, we’ll let you know here on the Smith Travel Blog, so you can keep pace with our global wanderings. We visit every property in our hand-picked hotel collection in person, just to check [...]
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Saturday, December 27th, 2008
And another review (they’re coming thick and fast at the moment): this time, our Smith spies have been in La Bella Italia, in that most stylish of fashion capitals, Milan. They took refuge in the spankingly chic new urban resort in the up-and-coming Boviso district known as The Chedi Milan, and here’s a little excerpt [...]
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Posted in Boutique hotels, Independent reviews, Milan, Shopping, Uncategorized, spa hotels | 1 Comment »
Friday, November 14th, 2008
We’ve started a new relationship - no, we’re not cheating on Mr Smith: we’re contributing to the slick travel blog at WeJetSet, an online store selling all the gizmos and gadgets a modern traveller could possible desire. (The Maharishi jackets, super-cool Lomo cameras and Krink laptop sleeves have already caught our eye as potential Christmas [...]
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Friday, October 17th, 2008
Kelly Wearstler is the interior designer behind a considerable number of Mr & Mrs Smith’s favourite luxury boutique hotels across the pond (including the Viceroy Santa Monica and Viceroy Palm Springs hotels in California, and Tides Riviera Maya in Mexico, to name just a few). As a result, she sailed effortlessly into second slot in [...]
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Wednesday, October 8th, 2008
In the first of what (we hope) will be a series of insider interviews with hoteliers, we caught up with Tim Haigh and Rupert Pendered – the boys behind Barnsley House – to find out what makes them tick and reveal some behind-the-scenes goings-on (warning: may contain bullwhips and sailors).
Barnsley House is one of [...]
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Friday, September 5th, 2008
To celebrate the launch of the Mr & Mrs Smith wedding pages, we’ve persuaded Brides magazine editor Deborah Joseph to divulge her Little White Book of wedding secrets – and trust us, what she doesn’t know about weddings and honeymoons probably ain’t worth knowing: Brides is the UK’s biggest-selling bridal magazine.
Here she reveals her [...]
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Posted in Australia, Boutique hotels, Caribbean, Destinations, Eating & drinking, Events, Guest blogs, Honeymoons & weddings, Insider interviews, London, Maldives, South Africa, Uncategorized, United Kingdom | 2 Comments »
Monday, September 1st, 2008
After another weekend of scrambling to pick up suits from the dry-cleaners, frantic headlong dashes down the motorway, whirlwind costume changes in hotel rooms, getting lost en route to tiny village churches and then realising you’re actually an hour early, the summer-wedding season is officially (read: thankfully) over.
Hopefully - if it was you saying ‘I [...]
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Posted in Boutique hotels, Destinations, Honeymoons & weddings, News, Travel tips, Uncategorized, United Kingdom | 1 Comment »
Thursday, August 28th, 2008
And now, some shameless plugging…
The chaps at Tuddenham Mill in Suffolk (one of our most popular boutique hotels), are having a bit of a shindig next week and have asked us to spread the word via the medium of blog. And so we shall.
The fun kicks off beside the millpond at 6.30pm next Thursday, 4 [...]
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