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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 2009, Paddy started work on a five-volume series of guidebooks covering all the Canary Islands, focussing first on the exceptional network of waymarked trails on the small islands of El Hierro, La Gomera and La Palma. An early summer of soaring temperatures in Sardinia saw Paddy exploring exciting and stunningly scenic routes, as yet little-known to most walkers visiting the island. Midsummer was devoted to the Pennine Way, as Paddy explored the route for the fourth time, researching a new guidebook to the classic trail. The last big exploration of the year was a two-way trek along the Arctic Circle Trail in Greenland, completed before the first snows of winter began to close the route.
During 2010, Paddy will be walking along new trails on Tenerife and climbing El Teide, the highest mountain in Spanish territory. Another visit to Sardinia will see the completion of all the research for a new guidebook to the island. The Channel Islands are being visited to research guidebooks to Jersey and Guernsey. An extended summer trip to Iceland is also planned, and Paddy says he won't come home until he absolutely has to!
Paddy currently has four guidebooks awaiting publication, covering the Pennine Way, Arctic Circle Trail, La Palma and La Gomera / El Hierro.
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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 guidebook due for publication is The Pennine Way, due in the middle of March 2010.
Paddy also delivers illustrated talks throughout the country. Bookings for 2010 include a series of talks and seminars at The Outdoors Show, during the last weekend in March 2010.
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| Duke of Edinburgh's Gold Award.
The Pennine Way - due March 2010
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
Cleveland Way & Yorkshire Wolds Way
The North York Moors
Irish Coast to Coast Walk
Walking in Malta
South West Coast Path
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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
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