Belmond Limited, the LVMH-owned luxury hospitality and travel brand, has been carrying passengers aboard the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express from London to Venice since 1982. Historically, each of the 17 carriages belonged to Europe’s Orient Express, connecting passengers from Paris to Istanbul as early as 1883. Following a careful restoration of the vintage carriages, the VSOE is now known as one of the most lavish travel experiences in the world.

“If it doesn’t kill you, I think it’s good for you.” What can’t Martha Stewart survive? Stewart surprised viewers of The Ellen DeGeneres Show by revealing that she’d been struck by lightning—not once or twice but three times! When asked how it felt, she admitted that it was “horrible.”