Stanley Stewart

England

Travel Writer at Freelance

writer and traveller

Articles

On the trail of myths and mirages, deep in the Egyptian desert

1 month ago | ft.com | Stanley Stewart

At the sunset call to prayer, the site guardian popped his head into the Temple of Amun and said he would be back soon.
The Everglades Is One of America's Most Overlooked National Parks-Here's Why You Should Visit This Watery Wilderness

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Stanley Stewart

At Shark Valley, I took a rental bike and set off in the direction of an observation tower. The path led across a watery prairie feathered with saw grass. It was late in the day, and I was alone. Great blue herons watched me from behind banks of water lilies. Dragonflies balanced on the tips of the grass. A nightjar passed, flying low with its mouth open for insects.
Across Corsica — in the footsteps of Dorothy Carrington

2 months ago | ft.com | Stanley Stewart

Dorothy Carrington came to Corsica by way of the London Underground.
a taste of paradise on a rainforest island

2 months ago | thetimes.com | Stanley Stewart

Space travel changes how people see the Earth. Viewed through a porthole of the International Space Station, afloat in a black void, the planet can look vulnerable, fragile. When Mark Shuttleworth came home from a week on the space station - he was a self-funded visitor in 2002 - he wanted to make a positive impact on the Earth's survival. But like many people with busy and often public lives, Shuttleworth had another ambition: he wanted to get lost.
A deep dive into the Yucatán

Nov 15, 2024 | ft.com | Stanley Stewart

It is difficult to know what the Mayans did for a good time.
New beginnings on the high plains of Patagonia

Jul 19, 2024 | ft.com | Stanley Stewart

We have all been guilty of overly elaborate courtship rituals.
In Palermo, Sicily, Secrets and Stories Await Around Every Corner

Jul 8, 2024 | cntraveler.com | Stanley Stewart

The Palazzo Valguarnera-Gangi occupies two sides of a piazza, as well as several adjoining streets, deep in the heart of the Kalsa quarter of Palermo. When I rang the bell, a uniformed butler opened the colossal door and ushered me up a double staircase past the stone bowls of water in which, had I been arriving at night sometime in the 18th century, I could extinguish my torch.
Getting lost in Mongolia, the world's last truly nomadic realm

Jun 29, 2024 | cntraveller.com | Stanley Stewart

When people ask me what is my favourite place in the wide world of places to which I have travelled, there is never any hesitation. I love Mongolia so much that I once spent five months crossing a thousand miles of it on horseback, the baggage horse loaded with a rattling collection of gear, from a temperamental stove to a rapidly disappearing bottle of whiskey. I wrote a book about the journey that was translated into a dozen languages.
The Croatian lighthouse — and island — you can have all to yourself

Jun 28, 2024 | ft.com | Stanley Stewart

The island of Vis is an outlier on the Dalmatian coast, adrift beyond most of the archipelago.
The timeless allure of the Amalfi Coast

Jun 6, 2024 | cntraveller.in | Stanley Stewart

All places have narratives: a back catalog of plot. On the Amalfi Coast, one of the most quintessentially Italian places in Italy, there are stories of the visiting Greeks and the temples they built and filled with lithe sculptures; the Arabs and their colored tile work; the Normans, nervously building watchtowers in case the Saracens turned up; the medieval fleets of Amalfi itself, commanding the Mediterranean and sailing home with cargoes of silver and lemon-tree saplings.