Great Britain - Grand Format

Neil Wilson was Born in Scotland and has lived there most of his life. Based in Perthshire, he has been a full-time writer since 1988, working on more than 80 guidebooks for various publishers, including the Lonely Planet guides to Scotland, England, Ireland and Prague. An outdoors enthusiast since childhood, Neil is an active hill-walker, mountain-bi sailor, snowboarder, fly-fisher and rock-climber, and has climbed and tramped in four continent including ascents of Jebel Toubkal in Morocco, Mount Kinabalu in Borneo, the Old Man of Hoy in Scotland's Orkney Islands and the Northwest Face of Half Dome in California's Yosemite Valley.
Neil also wrote Plan, Understand and Survival guide. Oliver Berry is a writer and photographer based in Cornwall. His first trip abroad was to the South of France, aged two. Since then he's travelled to Corsica, New Zealand, the South Pacific, and midwestern USA. Irish by birth and conviction, Fionn Davenport has been writing about his native country for more than two decades. He was pushed to travel in order to escape Dublin's comfortable stasis and by the promise of adventure, and this has cemented his belief that Ireland remains his favourite place to visit, if not always live in.
These days, he has a weekly commute home to Dublin, from Manchester, where he lives with his partner, Laura, and their car, Trevor. In Dublin he presents lnside Culture on RTE Radio 1 and writes travel features for a host of publications, including the Irish Times. A travel author for the past decade, Marc Di Duca has worked for Lonely Planet in Siberia, Slovakia, Bavaria, England, Ukraine, Austria, Poland, Croatia, Portugal, Madeira and on the Trans-Siberian Railway.