Dumfriesshire Dales

Darren Flint has worked across the UK and Australia before recently settling as a relative newcomer in Dumfries and Galloway. He keeps his love affair with his home territory, East Anglia, alive with regular visits to his caravan in Suffolk. After a career in tourism development and then conservation with the RSPB, he completed a Masters in Environmental Conservation from UCL. An avid naturalist with a fascination for butterflies, he likes nothing better than donning his boots and uncovering those hidden corners we all dream about. He is the project officer for two community environmental ventures: Castle Loch in Lochmaben and Moffat Community Nature Reserve; as well as co-owner of Summerlea House B&B in Moffat.Donald Greig is a travel writer and publisher based in southern Scotland. He has spent much of his life travelling in the UK and overseas and still finds that nothing beats the fascination of discovering and learning about new places. Having lived in various countries around the world, he returned to his native Scotland in 2014 to write the Bradt guide to Dumfries and Galloway. He has written for a range of newspapers and magazines, including Independent on Sunday, Wanderlust and Countryfile, and he has written or worked for a range of travel publishers in the UK and Australia, including Rough Guides, Dorling Kindersley and Thomas Cook. Between 2007 and 2014 he was Managing Director of Bradt Travel Guides, curating an endlessly fascinating list of guidebooks to destinations worldwide.