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Paddy Dillon is a keen and dedicated walker with a great knowledge of walking opportunities throughout the British Isles, as well as around Europe and further afield.
Paddy is author and illustrator of over 40 guidebooks, half of them published by Cicerone Press, covering all parts of the British Isles and selected parts of Europe. He has contributed words and pictures to more than 20 other guidebooks, and has written and illustrated more than a dozen tourism brochures and booklets.
Paddy is an indefatigable long-distance walker, keen hillwalker, dedicated island-hopper and travels world-wide. He has delivered lectures and has appeared on radio and TV.
During 2008 Paddy completely overhauled his guidebook, Walking in Madeira. He also walked a new waymarked trail, the Drystone Route, through the mountains of Mallorca, to produce a trekking guidebook. Paddy visited the Isles of Scilly to update another guidebook, now in its third edition. The long-distance Reivers Way was followed around Northumberland as a new guidebook project. One of Paddy's earliest guidebooks, Walking in the North Pennines, was completely overhauled, updated and expanded.
During 2009, Paddy starts work on a five volume series of guidebooks covering all seven of the Canary Islands, working from west to east. El Hierro and La Gomera come first, followed by La Palma, then Tenerife. Gran Canaria will be followed by Fuerteventura and Lanzarote.
Sardinia was the subject of an early summer exploration, while the later summer months will be devoted to an exciting trek along the Arctic Circle Trail in Greenland.
Paddy is currently walking the Pennine Way while researching a new guidebook to this classic National Trail.
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Paddy is a full-time outdoor writer and photographer specialising in walking guidebooks and magazine articles. He also leads walks and delivers lectures.
Paddy has guided walking groups in areas as diverse as: Nepal, Tibet, Canadian Rockies, Holland, Tuscany, Sierra Nevada, Hungary, Madeira, Loire Valley, Black Forest, Cumbria Way and the English Lake District.
Paddy not only keeps his own guidebooks up to date, but also helps to update the guidebooks produced by other writers.
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Contributor to outdoor magazines.
Compiler of booklets and brochures.
Paddy's most recently published guidebook covers 60 walks in Madeira and Porto Santo.
Paddy also delivers illustrated talks throughout the country. Bookings for 2009 include The Outdoors Show and the South Pennine Walk & Ride Festival.
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| Duke of Edinburgh's Gold Award.
The Reivers Way
Walking in the North Pennines
Walking in Madeira
Walking in the Isles of Scilly
Walking in County Durham
The GR5 Trail - French Alps
The National Trails
The Great Glen Way
Walking in Mallorca
GR20 Corsica - The High Level Route
Walking in the Isle of Arran
Cleveland Way & Yorkshire Wolds Way
The North York Moors
Irish Coast to Coast Walk
Walking in Malta
South West Coast Path
Due in 2009:
Trekking in Mallorca - GR 221
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Britain - has walked in every county
Lake District - every single summit
Northern England - Pennines and North York Moors
Southern Scotland - Galloway and Arran
South West England - Cornwall Dartmoor Exmoor
The National Trails - all of them
Ireland - has walked in every county
Corsica and the GR20
Italy - Tuscany and Sardinia
French Alps and the GR5
Malta Gozo and Comino - everywhere
Madeira and Porto Santo - everywhere
Mallorca - all mountainous parts
Spain - Andalucia and Camino de Santiago
Canary Islands - all seven islands
Mountains of Colorado - the 14ers
Selected European Trails - TMB etc
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