The Smith Travel Blog: an insider guide to the world of luxury travel, offering a behind-the-scenes insight into the Smith team’s hotel-hunting adventures, magpie-finds from the real and online world, hot trend tip-offs and eye-opening interviews with stars and stylistas.

We Smiths like to rank ourselves rather highly in the cookery stakes."

What to wear for your boutique break..."

If, like the huge number of Brits planning on taking a ’staycation’ this year, you just want to stay on home turf, let us point you in the right direction."

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."