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Simon Calder
English travel journalist
Simon Peter Richie Calder (born 25 December ) is a freelance English travel journalist and broadcaster. He works for various news and travel publications as well as being travel correspondent for The Independent.
Biography
In , Calder joined the Woodcraft Folk and travelled with the group to the Lake District.
Simon calder biography
That same year, after the USSR sent nuclear warheads to Cuba, Calder's parents decided that with Gatwick Airport only two miles away they were in the line of a potential Soviet target.[1] He attended Thomas Bennett School in Crawley.[2]
Calder's first job was a cleaner for British Airways at Gatwick and later as a security guard.
He began writing budget travel guidebooks during this period, starting with the Hitch-hiker's Manual: Britain. He later studied for a degree in mathematics at the University of Warwick,[3] while also indulging his love of hitchhiking around Europe.
At one point he was