The very least we felt we could do in response to the Haiti earthquake is organise an auction prize to give you the opportunity to take a stylish weekend away in New York, in return for a donation to the Disasters Emergency Committee .
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Haiti appeal: bid to win a luxury weekend at the Crosby Street Hotel
As the world’s top models spent the week showcasing France ’s finest fashion delights, our thoughts turned to summoning some Parisian style of our own. Leaving the Côte d’Azur behind, we’re staying in France to soak up the chic, sleek and sexy surroundings of Hotel Sezz … Style Discreet, sexy, arty Setting Seine-set tranquillity Why this week? As the stores begin to fill with new season collections, we can’t resist nipping across the Channel to shop in the city where the word chic was invented.
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Hotel of the week: Hotel Sezz
Over to our very own TuneSmith, DJ Rob Wood , the brains and ears behind our albums , to make his monthly recommendations… ALBUM OF THE MONTH IRM by Charlotte Gainsbourg When? Your listening experience has to be as boutique as your hotel Why? Quirky and gorgeous, it’s an intriguing slice of modern cool As the offspring of Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin, Charlotte Gainsbourg’s musical pedigree was always going to be in the spotlight.
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Listen up: TuneSmith’s musical recommendations for February
via startribune.com Posted via web from David Erickson’s Posterous
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Sidney Rice Talks About What Vikings’ Receivers Need To Do Against The Saints
While cinema’s movers and shakers flit between red carpets in London and LA, we’ve been dreaming of some Hollywood glamour of our own. We found it on the Côte d’Azur at fit-for-a-filmstar Cap d’Antibes Beach Hotel … Style Minimalist modern marvel Setting Cream of the Cap Why this week?
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Hotel of the week: Cap d’Antibes Beach Hotel
Not long ago, we dispatched travel blogger Heather Cowper on an anonymous review trip to the enchanting Hotel Heritage Av Liberdade in Portugal’s capital. Not only did she produce a terrific hotel review , but she also gave us a whistle-stop tasting tour of the city’s eats… There are so many things I could tell you about our trip to Lisbon . Maybe fado music, the mournful mixture of folk and blues that is sometimes lively, sometimes sad, with lyrics of longing and lost love and being far from home
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Platefuls of Portugal: Lisbon’s tasty treats
New Year has come and gone, and we feel a little older, not really much wiser, a lot fatter and just a little bit more desperate to get away. It’s lucky then, that so many of our stylish self-catering stays have decided to slice their prices. Like the sound of an elegant country house set in sweeping lawns overlooking the East Devon coast, or a peaceful Moroccan riad with a cool courtyard and a panorama-endowed roof-terrace
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Smith & Friends: spring self-catering savings
Style Genteel modern townhouse Setting Seaside meets Snowdonia Why this week? Some makeovers attract scandal, but the overhaul at Escape Boutique B&B in North Wales is no Anne Robinson. Their refurbishment has triggered much speculation at Smith HQ as to how you might improve upon the elegant blend of old and new that Escape had already perfected
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Hotel of the week: Escape Boutique B&B
via crazyinternetbeatz.com Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg do a great remix from the hit musical. Posted via web from David Erickson’s Posterous
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You’re The One That I Want by Dr. Dre Featuring Snoop Dogg Vs. Grease
One too many slips on icy pavements recently has made us all feel a little like hiding away until spring (though maybe not in the fridge, like Anthony’s tortoise). But despite the demise of the festive season, it’s not all gloom out there. Allow us to introduce a few new hotels to get you dreaming in 2010… First up, may we suggest some hearty rural romps in the Dorset countryside, before resting your head at the Museum Inn – a romantic restaurant with rooms in Farnham village.
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Happy new hotels: January jaunts in Dorset, Manchester and Rome
via nytimes.com Fascinating map from the New York Times displays most popular movie rentals by zip code. Posted via web from David Erickson’s Posterous
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Only Saint Paul’s 55111 Zip Likes The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
As many of you know, I’m teaching two courses at UBC and I’m always willing to help bright people. Nathan Tippe and Andre Malan are two UBC students I met through the Vancouver entrepreneurial community. I am helping Nathan capture the SLC tweets, so just tag your tweets with #SLC2010 and they’ll be captured.
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The UBC Student Leadership Conference #SLC2010 LiveTweetage
We’ve cast aside dreary resolutions involving various forms of deprivation and replaced them instead with ambitions for adventure in faraway lands. Scooping our prize this week is a sky-high, eco-dedicated resort perched betwixt mountain and sea in the New Zealand town of Kaikoura … Style Architectural meets arboreal Setting Deer-dotted pastures and peaks Why this week? It might feel like a hundred years of winter outside but down in the southern hemisphere, summer is in full swing.
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Hotel of the Week: Hapuku Lodge and Tree Houses
With the clink of midnight champagne still ringing in our ears (not New Year’s Eve – we just like champagne), the Smith Travel Blog comes skipping into 2010 with a fistful of resolutions, most of which involve getting more stamps in our passport, more hotels in our collection, and more gin in our martini. We’ll let you know how it goes. To start the year, over to our very own TuneSmith, DJ Rob Wood , the brains and ears behind our albums , to make his first monthly recommendations of the decade… ————————————————————————————– ALBUM OF THE MONTH Splendor in the Grass by Pink Martini When
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Listen up: TuneSmith’s musical recommendations for January
photo credit: Carina Ice I was delighted to see my friend Minna Van ( The Network Hub ) grab a couple of poinsettias for the office, and I made a comment that, in reality, poinsettias’ name should not be poinsettias but Nochebuenas. It actually pisses me off that people don’t realize that nochebuenas (aka poinsettias) are indigenous to Mexico (Wikipedia entry here should you require more information). As indicated by the entry (and something I knew since the very first time I visited the US) The name “poinsettia” is after Joel Roberts Poinsett, the first United States Minister to Mexico, who introduced the plant into the US in 1828.
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This week, a lot of us will be bundling kids into cars, planes or trains and taking them to whichever lucky relatives have the pleasure this Christmas – or maybe even running away from it all to a hotel. To help avoid any ‘are we there yet?’-inspired infanticide, we asked Kayt Sukel , writer, mother, Smith hotel reviewer and wünderblogger over at Travel Savvy Mom , to give us a list of her must-have travel gear for child-toting globetrotters… For the most part, I’m not a mom who is all that down with travel ‘accessories.’ In my experience, the only required elements for successful travel with kids are an extra pack of wet wipes (for all of the stuff that will be unceremoniously smeared on Mom’s pants) and a slightly twisted sense of humor. But now that Chet has ventured to nearly 30 countries, I must admit there are a handful of items we could not do without: 1
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Top five children’s travel essentials
As the tension rises for this week’s conquering hero, so does the temperature and the altitude. For sea-salty spectacle and hilltop high drama, it could be none other than Jade Mountain on the island of St Lucia … Style Supervillain’s island lair Setting Balmy bayside heights Why this week? We’ve connived to get you five nights for the price of four on stays until Christmas Day, with $250 resort credit to put towards spa treatments, food or drinks
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Hotel of the Week: Jade Mountain
To the untrained eye, truffles may resemble nothing so closely as potatoes and lumps of volcanic rock. But this doesn’t deter some of the world’s most refined palates from shaving them into risottos and whipping them up with scrambled eggs. The white Piedmont truffle, with its mild, earthy flavour and wonderful aroma, is the pinnacle of the fungal form
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We ask the questions: Q&A with La Villa, and a man who knows his truffles
Balearic-based concierge service, Deliciously Sorted , arranges private chefs, jet and boat charter and VIP entry to Ibiza and now also Mallorca ’s best destinations. Who better then, to give Mr & Mrs Smith the inside scoop on the island’s hotspots than Deliciously Sorted’s on-isle red-carpet roller-outers, Tor Cooper-Evans and Claire Gauvain from TLC ?
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Postcard from Mallorca: Metropolitan mojitos and Med-side chiringuitos
The Museum of the City of New York is getting in on the speakeasy craze with an outdoor speakeasy every Wednesday, set in a newly opened section of the museum that overlooks Central Park. Tell Them Jerry Sent You features drinks from the Prohibition era, although the point isn’t to have a secret bar, but rather to make historically accurate cocktails. [ NY Times ] New Orleans-themed restaurant Lucy Browne’s opened in the space formerly occupied by Steak Frites in the West Village.
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Open & Closed: Say Hello to Lucy Browne’s & Goodbye to Smith’s