Simon Calder (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Simon Calder (born 25 December 1955 in Crawley, West Sussex), is an English travel writer, currently the senior travel editor for The Independent newspaper. In 1962, Calder joined the Woodcraft Folk and took his first independent trip with the group to the Lake District. 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. The family moved to Guernsey in the Channel Islands, for a short holiday while the danger passed.