OWPG: Media News Bulletin Summer 2018 | Page 6

P addy Dillon cycled 200 miles to the Backpackers Club AGM and was surprised to find himself elected as President. Many club members use his guidebooks to long-distance treks and trails throughout Britain and Europe. Paddy’s latest guidebooks include Mountain Walking in Mallorca and new editions of Walking in Madeira and Glyndwr’s Way. He will be working on half a dozen updated reprints of guidebooks this year, stretching through Europe from the Canary Islands to Greenland. He is currently finishing work on a guidebook covering all nine islands in the Azores, offering day walks and multi- day treks. Next, he will be writing a guidebook to the island-hopping GR131 through all seven of the Canary Islands. Image Flores, in the Azores, looking along the course of the GR1. Paddy The P