Murray Stewart has now accumulated nearly twenty years’ travel-writing experience, since escaping from his previous career in the world of corporate restructuring. Currently, he also works part-time as Partnerships Manager for a United Kingdom travel company and as a report-writer for an International Development charity, as well as acting as a trustee for another charity.
Murray’s travels have taken him to some seventy countries and he has worked as an English teacher in Chile and Mexico, and as a business consultant in Spain and Bulgaria. Although he has written on African destinations such as Cabo Verde, his primary expertise is firmly founded in Europe, with guidebooks on the Azores, Cyprus and regions of France. Northern Spain has been his particular focus for over a decade. His first edition guidebook to The Basque Country and Navarre won the British Guild of Travel Writers’ ‘Best Guidebook’ in 2016 and his walking guide to the Camino Ignaciano pilgrimage was shortlisted for the same award a few years later.
He has completed over 2,000 miles on foot on various pilgrimages across Spain, the ultimate in ‘slow travel.’ Murray’s travels across the Basque mountains with two donkeys in 2021 attracted media attention from Spanish radio and television networks.
At the start of the war in Ukraine, he spent several weeks transporting refugees to temporary accommodation, visa and refugee centres, train stations and airports in Poland – a very profound and different type of travel experience.
Murray believes that travel provides the world’s best education, for those with an open mind. His sporting loves include rugby, cycling and keeping fit.
