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Simon Calder was born on 25 December, 1955 in Crawley, United Kingdom, is a Travel journalist. Discover Simon Calder's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is He in this year and how He spends money? Also learn how He earned most of networth at the age of 68 years old?

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Occupation Travel journalist
Age 68 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 25 December 1955
Birthday 25 December
Birthplace Crawley, West Sussex, England
Nationality United Kingdom

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Who Is Simon Calder's Wife?

His wife is Charlotte Hindle (m. 1997)

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Parents Nigel Calder
Wife Charlotte Hindle (m. 1997)
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Children 2

Simon Calder Net Worth

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2019

Over the years Simon has travelled to more than 120 countries and lists Northern Ireland, Yorkshire and Hadrian’s Wall, Northumberland among his favourite places to visit.

2012

He continues to contribute to various BBC programmes, including The Travel Show and Rip Off Britain as a presenter of short films and as an expert providing advice to consumers. He regularly comments as an expert on travel issues for other radio and TV stations. Calder presented The Travel Show, a weekly travel phone-in on the London talk radio station LBC, for four years until April 2012.

In 2012 Simon won the Outstanding Achievement and Broadcast Journalist of the Year at the 2012 Travel Press Awards and also the News Journalist of the Year for Print at the 2012 Business Travel Journalism Awards.

2011

In 2011, Calder wrote an article for the Independent entitled "A new age of the train is dawning across Europe" about how competition on the railways was improving service across Europe. Calder's articles have featured in Condé Nast Traveller, The Evening Standard, High Life (BA’s inflight magazine), and the trade publication, Travel Trade Gazette.

Calder won the 2011 Christmas edition of Celebrity Mastermind, with Concorde as his specialist subject.

1997

Simon married Charlotte in Las Vegas in 1997. He has two daughters (born in 2000 and 2003) and lives in London.

1994

Calder became travel editor for The Independent in 1994 and shortly afterwards began presenting for BBC 2's Travel Show until the programme ended in 1999. He then contributed to several BBC 1 shows, including Perfect Holiday and Departure Lounge. Calder presented the final film in the last edition of the long-running Holiday programme in 2007.

1986

In 1986, Calder flew his first and only flight on Concorde. In 2006, Calder travelled more than 5700 miles by rail across Russia from Moscow in the west to Vladivostok in the east, on the Trans-Siberian Railway.

1980

After university, Simon briefly taught Maths in Crawley before landing a job as a radio engineer with the BBC in London. Calder wrote several books and series of guides including the Traveller's Survival Kit series and Backpacks, Boots and Baguettes. His first broadcast as a travel expert was on Simon Bates programme Studio B15 on BBC Radio 1 in 1980.

1962

In 1962, Calder joined the Woodcraft Folk and travelled 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, for a short holiday while the danger passed. The school he attended, Thomas Bennett in Crawley, compulsorily taught Russian, which Calder comments was not useful on regular school and family trips to France.

1955

Simon Calder (born 25 December 1955) is an English travel writer and broadcaster, currently senior travel editor for The Independent newspaper.

1946

Calder is the son of science writer Nigel Calder and the grandson of Lord Ritchie-Calder. He is the nephew of Scottish writer and critic, Angus Calder and educationalist Isla Calder (1946-2000).