ALI LEMER : Ali has been a Lonely Planet writer and editor since 2007, and has authored guidebooks and articles on Russia, Germany, NYC, Chicago, Los Angeles, Melbourne, Bali, Hawaii, Japan and Scotland, amon others. A native New Yorker, Ali has also lived in Melbourne, Chicago, Prague and the UK, and has travelled extensively around Europe, North America Oceania and Asia. TIM RICHARDS : Tim is a travel writer whose work has appeared in a variety of newspapers, magazines and web-sites, as well as Lonely Planet guidebooks.
Tim has lived in Egypt for two years, and Poland for a year, while teaching English as a foreign language in the mid-1990s. Nowadays he lives in the city centre of Melbourne, with his wife, Narrelle Harris.