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OUR STORY
A beat-up old car, a few
dollars in the pocket and a
sense of adventure. In 1972
OUR that’s all Tony and Maureen
Wheeler needed for the
WRITERS trip of a lifetime – across
Europe and Asia overland
to Australia. It took several
months, and at the end –
broke but inspired – they sat at their kitchen table writing and
stapling together their first travel guide, Across Asia on the Cheap.
Within a week they’d sold 1500 copies. Lonely Planet was born.
Today, Lonely Planet has offices in Franklin, London, Melbourne,
Oakland, Dublin, Beijing and Delhi, with more than 600 staff and
writers. We share Tony’s belief that ‘a great guidebook should do
three things: inform, educate and amuse’.

BELINDA DIXON ISABEL ALBISTON
Only happy when her feet are suitably sandy, Belinda After growing up near Belfast, Isabel spent the next
has been (gleefully) travelling, researching and 15 years travelling and living all over the world. She
writing for Lonely Planet since 2006. It’s seen her has written for newspapers and magazines while
marvelling at Stonehenge at sunrise; scrambling based in London, Sydney and Buenos Aires; she
up Italian mountain paths; horse riding across has also worked on Lonely Planet titles such as
Donegal’s golden sands; kayaking down south Devon Borneo and Malaysia, Singapore & Brunei. But it’s in
rivers; gazing at Verona’s frescoes; fossil hunting on coming home to Ireland that she’s been able to fully
Dorset’s Jurassic Coast. A trained radio journalist, appreciate this beautiful corner of the world, from the
her innate nosiness means few likely-looking sleep bracing breezes of the Atlantic coast to the warmth of
spots go unexplored. See her VideoBlog posts at its cosy pubs.
https://belindadixon.com
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