Posts in the UK category

3rd September 2014 | Everyday Luxury Luxury Travel UK

The Grove Hotel and a Wedding in Watford

I grew up in the small leafy town of Amersham in Buckinghamshire and went to school in the even smaller the neighbouring town of Chesham. While growing up in the country was pretty calm and idyllic, as a teenager I got very bored of the same pubs, the cheesy clubs (Stages, or Winkers if you… Read more »

5th August 2014 | Everyday London Life Luxury Luxury Travel UK General Top Tens

The SilverSpoon Guide to Staycations: My Top 10 Luxury Hotels in the UK

 ‘Against the Envy of less happier lands, This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England’ I love travelling the world: California beaches, the Australian rainforest, Thai jungles and Italian gastronomy are all fabulous, but there’s nothing I love more than this scepter’d isle. A country that has rolling countryside, pretty pebble beaches and the… Read more »

6th July 2014 | Everyday Luxury Luxury Travel UK

Luxury at Lainston House and a Wedding in Winchester

Mr S and I were attending our first wedding as a married couple, so naturally we wanted to make a weekend of it. The lovely bride-to-be, Amelia who appeared in my Grain Store review, recommended we stay at Lainston House in Winchester. Ever the organisational freak I booked our stay there five months in advance, along… Read more »

4th June 2014 | Everyday London Life Luxury Travel UK

London in Love

I’ve been lucky enough to visit many cities around the world: Paris, New York, Rome, Sydney, all beautiful cities with unique characters… but as much as I love the food, culture and people of these places my heart will always lie in London.   An earlier post this week described how I spent my formative… Read more »

16th May 2014 | Everyday London Life Luxury Travel Restaurants UK

The SilverSpoon Guide to London Date Nights: Top 5 for Total Luxury

When I first started dating Mr Silver, he recognised that I was a lady of discerning tastes, a food lover and a champagne quaffer. He treated me like a princess and took me to top London restaurants, fabulous bars and cool gastropubs… he clearly knew how to impress me… It was only later that I… Read more »

27th April 2014 | Everyday Luxury Travel UK

Living it up at The Lowry Hotel, a Manchester weekender

It was a SilverSpoon out of London weekender as Mr Silver and I travelled up to Manchester to celebrate the christening of a good friend’s baby. Mr Silver was The Godfather, a fact he was keen to repeat, thinking it made him sound cool and Mafioso… Anyway, our home for the weekend was The Lowry… Read more »

20th March 2014 | Everyday Luxury Travel UK

San Domenico House – A Little Piece of Italy in Chelsea

I love individual places and I wish London wasn’t so full of so many chains; hotels, restaurants and shops. But sometimes you stumble across somewhere really unique and individual: like San Domenico House.  Though I’d known of the hotel for years; I’d never actually visited, so when I was invited to a night celebrating San Domenico… Read more »

7th March 2014 | Everyday London Life Luxury Travel UK

The Kensington Hotel – The Town House Suite Launch

When the lovely Mina of Kings Road Rocks invited me to The Kensington Hotel for the launch of London’s largest town house suite I jumped at the chance. I am a self-confessed boutique hotel addict and I was very excited to see the plush new suite! The Kensington Hotel forms part of the Doyle Collection,… Read more »

23rd January 2014 | Everyday Luxury Travel Restaurants UK

Lime Wood – A Country Retreat

  Ok, A confession. I am a boutique hotel addict! So when given the chance to visit Lime Wood, a luxury hotel in New Forest, I was clearly very, very excited. After an hour and a half train journey from Waterloo to Brockenhurst, followed by a 10 minute taxi drive, we arrived at our home for… Read more »