Rival travel writer Mike Parker who has settled in Aberystwyth, also leapt to the defence of the mid Wales town which the Lonely Planet guide labels as "rather stuffy and old fashioned - a wannabe seaside resort".
It is not easy to find critics of the new design - most guides seem to agree with London's Lonely Planet Guide that it has undergone "a remarkable transformation", making it easier to appreciate the buildings flanking it.
The Lonely Planet travel guide puts Derry fourth, behind San Francisco, Amsterdam, and the Indian city of Hyderabad.
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Backpackers aren't to blame, says Joe Cummings, who wrote Lonely Planet's Thailand guide.
With the Santiago business traveler in mind, CNN asked Lonely Planet's Bridget Gleeson, co- author of Lonely Planet Chile and Easter Island Travel Guide, to lend her expertise in selecting the city's best spots.
Women wave from street stalls adorned with pictures stolen from the pages of Lonely Planet, the popular backpacker guide.
First, before departure, I gathered a collection of guide books from Lonely Planet and a large fold out map of each city.
Tom Hall of the travel guide publisher, Lonely Planet, said travel companies would put in place contingency plans when they knew the strike dates, such as scheduling flying from alternative airports.
Having updated Lonely Planet's Trans-Siberian Railway guide a couple times, and clocked something like 15 to 20 days of Russian rail time in my life, my first remembrances of the Trans-Siberian rarely consider what is out the window.
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