By the time Tony co-founded Lonely Planet Publications in 1973, he already had the travel bug. And ever since, travel and discovery have been at the heart of his life and career.
Lonely Planet author Mara Vorhees was the LP Russia expert and also a keen cyclist. She was part of the Lonely Planet ‘team’ we put together to ride the Tour d’Afrique from Cairo to Cape Town in 2009. Mara rode from Victoria Falls to Windhoek, following ‘The Elephant ...
Maureen and I spent last week in Russia – first in St Petersburg (I’d never been there) and then in Moscow (Maureen hadn’t been there since back in the 1970s, in the Soviet era. My time in Moscow was spent with Lonely Planet’s Russian publishing partners Eksmo who are...
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