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[@SimonCalder](/creator/twitter/SimonCalder)
"USA Summer 2025. If you are considering a visit I've compiled all you need to know about Esta rules searches of your social media history and queues for Customs and Border Protection. Best plan: go via Dublin where you can be pre-cleared at the airport"  
![@SimonCalder Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::186470618.png) [@SimonCalder](/creator/x/SimonCalder) on [X](/post/tweet/1946247564044410923) 2025-07-18 16:35:53 UTC 203.2K followers, 52.7K engagements


"Just added to the Unesco World Heritage List for "outstanding universal value". No not me: Neuschwanstein the castle dreamed up by Ludwig II of Bavaria. Their Schloss our gain. The iconic twirls of towers and turrets were borrowed by Disney theme parks"  
![@SimonCalder Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::186470618.png) [@SimonCalder](/creator/x/SimonCalder) on [X](/post/tweet/1945426655016575297) 2025-07-16 10:13:53 UTC 203.2K followers, 14K engagements


"Holiday prices summer 2025: lots of reports saying prices have surged. But my research suggests there's a a slump particularly to the Greek islands and Turkey. Friday XX July family of four from East Mids to Crete real package with TUI XXX per person"  
![@SimonCalder Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::186470618.png) [@SimonCalder](/creator/x/SimonCalder) on [X](/post/tweet/1944665447456035221) 2025-07-14 07:49:07 UTC 203.2K followers, 51.8K engagements


"One in three flights in Europe goes to from or over France. So a strike by French air-traffic controllers has serious consequences. On 3/4 July: 3000 flights cancelled 7400 delayed Cost to aviation industry: 104m Worst-hit airports: Palma and Barcelona"  
![@SimonCalder Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::186470618.png) [@SimonCalder](/creator/x/SimonCalder) on [X](/post/tweet/1943928270086713412) 2025-07-12 06:59:50 UTC 203.1K followers, 15.9K engagements


"UK airports begin their peak days today. Today: Newcastle has its busiest day of the summer. Friday it's Birmingham. Sunday Luton. Good luck everyone"  
![@SimonCalder Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::186470618.png) [@SimonCalder](/creator/x/SimonCalder) on [X](/post/tweet/1947159973638582368) 2025-07-21 05:01:28 UTC 203.1K followers, 20.7K engagements


"On the eve of the busiest day of the year so far for travellers I'm working on the Friday morning newsletter. Includes Concorde navigating Albania and why you should never check in baggage. If you don't already subscribe you might want to sign up here"  
![@SimonCalder Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::186470618.png) [@SimonCalder](/creator/x/SimonCalder) on [X](/post/tweet/1948444039306530899) 2025-07-24 18:03:53 UTC 203.2K followers, 16.5K engagements


"Roaming. Many mobile deals are strictly EU so beware international frontiers. Your phone may explore more widely than you causing unexpected items in the billing area. Examples: Corfu-Albania Croatia-Bosnia as well as the Pyrenees near plucky Andorra"  
![@SimonCalder Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::186470618.png) [@SimonCalder](/creator/x/SimonCalder) on [X](/post/tweet/1946253846440755476) 2025-07-18 17:00:51 UTC 203.1K followers, 23.1K engagements


"Glasgow airport strikes threatened on three fronts with the Unite union saying walk-outs could begin as early as XX July. But if you have a booking to/from the airport don't panic. The Unite messaging is intended to concentrate the minds of the employers"  
![@SimonCalder Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::186470618.png) [@SimonCalder](/creator/x/SimonCalder) on [X](/post/tweet/1941164311583572156) 2025-07-04 15:56:51 UTC 203.1K followers, 13.6K engagements


"@deerfold @SHARONPEARCE195 That is not correct. No one apart from the EU cares when a passport was issued. They just want to know when it expires. To enter Turkey your passport must have an expiry date at least XXX days (about five months) after the arrival date. And a spare page"  
![@SimonCalder Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::186470618.png) [@SimonCalder](/creator/x/SimonCalder) on [X](/post/tweet/1945142684932337899) 2025-07-15 15:25:29 UTC 203.1K followers, XX engagements


"HS2: I've read the official reports and statements so you didn't have to. Depressing. A vision for connectivity and levelling up the country has become a national embarrassment wrecked by incompetence as tens of billions of taxpayers' cash was squandered"  
![@SimonCalder Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::186470618.png) [@SimonCalder](/creator/x/SimonCalder) on [X](/post/tweet/1935365599623774429) 2025-06-18 15:54:50 UTC 203.1K followers, 297.7K engagements


"easyJet: four years after Brexit passport rules took effect some ground staff for Britain's biggest budget airline are still wrongly turning away passengers who have valid passports. In the latest case: they wrecked a family's birthday 50th trip to Paris"  
![@SimonCalder Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::186470618.png) [@SimonCalder](/creator/x/SimonCalder) on [X](/post/tweet/1945010132556857391) 2025-07-15 06:38:46 UTC 203.1K followers, 27.6K engagements


"Eclipse 2026. One year one month and one day from now the greatest astronomical experience of the decade will sweep across northwest Europe straight to the heart of Spain at the peak of summer. Start planning your search for darkness on XX August 2026🔽"  
![@SimonCalder Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::186470618.png) [@SimonCalder](/creator/x/SimonCalder) on [X](/post/tweet/1943462262536311204) 2025-07-11 00:08:05 UTC 203.1K followers, 21.7K engagements


"Airlines are blaming lots of flight delays on air-traffic control. But on routes with multiple flights such as easyJet from Gatwick to Milan yesterday they could manage things so much better. An initial 5-hour delay shrank at one point to XX minutes then increased to X hours"  
![@SimonCalder Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::186470618.png) [@SimonCalder](/creator/x/SimonCalder) on [X](/post/tweet/1945366392259178549) 2025-07-16 06:14:25 UTC 203.2K followers, 15.2K engagements


"Busiest travel weekend of the year: Friday XX to Sunday XX July. Air: Air-traffic control delays likely with Scotland hit by airspace closures due to President Trump's visit. Road: Friday to 7pm Saturday 10am-5pm and Sunday 11am-6pm worst. Good luck all"  
![@SimonCalder Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::186470618.png) [@SimonCalder](/creator/x/SimonCalder) on [X](/post/tweet/1948038780029395149) 2025-07-23 15:13:32 UTC 203.2K followers, 18.4K engagements


"Passport validity for European Union. A UK passport must meet two conditions: On day of entry to the EU issued less than XX years ago. On intended day of exit from EU at least X months left before expiry date. (Also Switz/Iceland/Norway but not Ireland.)"  
![@SimonCalder Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::186470618.png) [@SimonCalder](/creator/x/SimonCalder) on [X](/post/tweet/1664867366763675648) 2023-06-03 05:31:26 UTC 203.2K followers, 558K engagements


""Creeping delays" where the wait gets ever-longer are infuriating especially while the airline is flying hundreds of other (and empty seats) on other flights to Milan. Gatwick is easyJet's main base; Milan Malpensa is the largest in Continental Europe"  
![@SimonCalder Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::186470618.png) [@SimonCalder](/creator/x/SimonCalder) on [X](/post/tweet/1945366393798410360) 2025-07-16 06:14:26 UTC 203.2K followers, 10.7K engagements


"@LucreciaAldao @vonderleyen @kajakallas @EU_Commission The UK negotiated after Brexit for British passport holders to become "third-country nationals" the same as people from Venezuela and Samoa. At that point the European Union had no choice but to deliver exactly the restrictions we demanded in terms of travel and length of stay"  
![@SimonCalder Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::186470618.png) [@SimonCalder](/creator/x/SimonCalder) on [X](/post/tweet/1945151172773384652) 2025-07-15 15:59:13 UTC 203.1K followers, 2911 engagements


"EU has revealed when the entry-exit system for UK visitors to the Schengen area will start: XX October 2025 but initially with only a minority of travellers providing fingerprints and facial biometrics. EES to be completed across Schengen by X April 2026"  
![@SimonCalder Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::186470618.png) [@SimonCalder](/creator/x/SimonCalder) on [X](/post/tweet/1947213520786870278) 2025-07-21 08:34:15 UTC 203.2K followers, 48.8K engagements


"My usual Saturday/Sunday 5.30pm Instagram Live taking your travel questions is delayed this afternoon due to my train running late. Sorry. Hoping to start at 5.45pm (the current estimate arrival at London King's Cross). Looking forward to your questions"  
![@SimonCalder Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::186470618.png) [@SimonCalder](/creator/x/SimonCalder) on [X](/post/tweet/1946970075681927231) 2025-07-20 16:26:53 UTC 203.1K followers, 19.9K engagements


"@cazb1682 No need. It would be like renewing car insurance a month early and paying extra. British Airways has only occasionally blundered on this subject; easyJet is the airline to worry about"  
![@SimonCalder Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::186470618.png) [@SimonCalder](/creator/x/SimonCalder) on [X](/post/tweet/1945152937883238532) 2025-07-15 16:06:14 UTC 203.1K followers, XXX engagements