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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 50 guidebooks, over 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 2010, Paddy continued working on a five-volume series of guidebooks covering all the Canary Islands. The first two, covering the islands of La Palma, La Gomera and El Hierro, have been published, and all the materials for Tenerife have been delivered. A second month-long visit to Sardinia saw Paddy exploring newly-waymarked trails in the mountains, completing all the route work for a new guidebook to the island. The Channel Islands were visited to research guidebooks to Jersey and Guernsey. An extended summer trip to Iceland also took place, and Paddy spent ten whole weeks exploring widely around the country.
So far during 2011, Paddy has make a thorough exploration of Gran Canaria to research the fourth of his five new guidebooks to the Canary Islands. The Mediterranean island of Menorca has been explored in great detail. An extended summer trip to Iceland has been completed. Next stop for Paddy is the World Trail Conference on the island of Jeju, South Korea.
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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 next two guidebooks due for publication are Walking on Tenerife and Walking on Sardinia, both due in November.
Paddy also delivers illustrated talks throughout the country.
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| Duke of Edinburgh's Gold Award.
Walking on Tenerife
Walking on Sardinia
Walking on Jersey
Walking on Guernsey
Walking on La Gomera and El Hierro
Walking on La Palma
Trekking in Greenland
The Pennine Way
Trekking in Mallorca - GR 221
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
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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
Greenland - The Arctic Circle Trail
Iceland - all areas
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