Simon Calder

Simon Calder is Travel Editor at Large for The Independent, writing a weekly column, various articles and features as well as filming a weekly video diary. Every Sunday afternoon, Simon presents the UK's only radio travel phone-in programme called The LBC Travel Show with Simon Calder (97.3 FM). He is a regular guest on national TV, often seen on BBC Breakfast, Daybreak, ITV News and Sky News.� He is often interviewed on BBC Radio, particularly for BBC Radio 4’s You & Yours programme and BBC Five Live.

Simon Calder: My first time skiing

Winter: the first time. I made life as difficult as possible when I chose to learn to ski in communist Romania.

Inside Simon Calder

Crawley, the town that's so easy to leave

Saturday, 19 February 2011

Ahead of his home town's historic clash with Man Utd, Simon Calder offers a guided tour

Simon Calder: Travel peak season, pay peak prices

Saturday, 19 February 2011

The man who pays his way

Simon Calder: A warm, exotic paradise – with a dark underbelly

Friday, 18 February 2011

Some visitors are attracted by the chance to fire an AK47, others by the illicit drugs on offer in Vietnam

Simon Calder: On track for Britain's first 'destistation'

Saturday, 12 February 2011

The man who pays his way

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A Renaissance arrives at St Pancras

Saturday, 12 February 2011

One shortcoming prevents St Pancras station living up to the title of the Roman martyr, Pancras, whose name means "one that holds everything": presently there is nowhere to sleep. There is a youth hostel, but only on the far side of Euston Road, the clogged six-lane superhighway that separates the station from central London. But 30 days from now – and 75 years after it closed its doors to the travelling public – the former Midland Grand Hotel is reborn, appropriately, as the St Pancras Renaissance.