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Weve gone to a lot of effort to ensure that the tenth edition of The Rough Guide to Scotland is accurate and up-to-date.However, things change places get discovered, opening hours are notoriouslyfickle, restaurants and rooms raise prices or lower standards. If you feel wevegot it wrong or left something out, wed like to know, and if you can rememberthe address, the price, the hours, the phone number, so much the better.
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Brendon Griffin has contributed to, and edited, various Rough Guides including WestAfrica, Central America, Spain, Portugal, Peru and New York, and has writtennumerous travel articles for the Rough Guide anthologies Make The Most of Your Time on Earth and MakeThe Most of Your Time in Britain. He is also the co-author ofthe Rough Guide to Bolivia. He has travelledwidely in Bolivia and Latin America in general and also writes on African,Latin and Brazilian music.
Rob Humphreys has spent some part of every year in Scotland since he was nowt but a ladin rural Yorkshire. One day he hopes to sail round the islands, but in themeantime, he can be found steering a Norfolk reed cutter up and down theThames.
Norm Longley Having spent most of his life writing Rough Guides to countries in EasternEurope and the Balkans, Norm has now turned his hand to the UK, havingresearched guides to Wales and Scotland, which, this time, led him toexplore the splendour of Argyll. He lives in Bath and can occasionally beseen erecting marquees on the Rec.
Keith Munro has been a freelance writer since 2010 after a stretch working in Londonsmusic industry as a record label manager. A keen traveller, he spent a yearin the French Pyrenees before returning to his childhood home of Edinburgh,and has since contributed to the Rough Guide toFrance and other travel related publications.
Helena Smith was lucky to grow up in the Trossachs region of central Scotland and underthe Zomba Plateau in Malawi. She is a travel writer and photographer, andblogs about food and community at eathackney.com .
James Stewart researched the north and northwest Highlands and Skye chapters of thisbook by camper van, bivvy bag and surfboard. A freelance travel journalistspecializing in wilderness and activities, he writes for internationalnewspapers and magazines such as The Guardian, The SundayTimes, The Independent and Wanderlust. He is the author of around fifteen guidebooks; jamesstewart.biz , @itsjamesstewart .