Travellers' Checks | The cruise of a lifetime? See 56 Unesco sites and visit 30 countries in 117 days
Plus, Mandarin Oriental takes over old Lake Como resort and two nights on the Malaysian island of Penang
If many Unesco World Heritage sites occupy your bucket list, then Regent Seven Seas Cruises might have just the voyage for you. Departing from Miami, Florida, in the United States, on January 5, 2021, the Seven Seas Mariner will set sail for Barcelona, Spain, via the Panama Canal, Easter Island, the South Pacific, Australasia, Southeast Asia, India, the Persian Gulf, the Suez Canal and the Mediterranean.
Book releases ahead of 50th anniversary of Concorde’s maiden flight
Based on Arthur Hailey’s bestselling 1968 novel of the same name, Airport (1970) was the first in a series of four air-disaster films that spanned the 1970s. Nominated for 10 Academy Awards, including for best picture, and starring Burt Lancaster and Dean Martin (and a bomb-stricken Boeing 707), it was also the best.
Airport 1975 (1974) and Airport ’77 (1977) were also well received and had similar star power (Charlton Heston and Jack Lemmon, respectively). Both of those films were set aboard a doomed Boeing 747 and turned in huge profits at the box office.