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Join Q&A with Simon Calder on travel disruption, rising costs, EU rules, US checks and what you need to know in 2026

Simon Calder, The Independent’s travel correspondent, is here to answer your questions on why travel is getting harder in 2026 – from rising costs and EU Etias to US Esta, social media checks and other new rules – and how to avoid the red tape

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My favourite family photo: ‘My mother stares dreamily into the distance, looking like an extra from Mad Men’

8 janvier 2026 à 13:00

I found solace in looking through my father’s slides after he died. They made me gasp – and my childhood turned from monotonous monochrome to glorious Technicolor

When my sister handed me a box of old Kodachrome slides last summer, I almost didn’t bother looking through them. Unusually for pre-smartphone times, my camera-crazy father had extensively documented our lives, filling dozens of photo albums. What could the transparencies possibly reveal that we hadn’t already seen countless times? I dimly remembered him ambushing us to watch slideshows, until we were old enough to rebel.

My father died in 2012. Not long before, I had developed an interest in photography myself and, after he was gone, I found solace in my viewfinder. It was, and still is, a way of feeling connected to him. What prompted me to set up my iPad as a makeshift lightbox to view the slides was technical interest.

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© Composite: Guardian Design; Tomekbudujedomek/Getty Images; handout

© Composite: Guardian Design; Tomekbudujedomek/Getty Images; handout

© Composite: Guardian Design; Tomekbudujedomek/Getty Images; handout

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