Simon Calder at 25: The worst trips I’ve taken
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Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. 2014: Ascent of Aconcagua, Argentina Climbing the highest peak in the Americas, in another forlorn attempt to overcome my fear of heights, involved three weeks of bitter cold, lukewarm tea and plodding uphill with an unwelcome additional payload due to unusually strict rules on, er, bodily waste. But at a cost of £1 for every minute of a two-week holiday, I hoped the family would spend less time drifting around incarcerated in an old Polish ferry and enjoy more than about one-third of the promised itinerary. After a highly successful World Cup, in which hundreds of thousands of supporters visited without visas, the Russian president announced anyone carrying the necessary Fan ID could return any time before the end of 2018.

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