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Podcast: Travel Writing Podcast
Episode: Caroline Mills on 'Solastalgia' and Making Slow Travel Work as a Professional Travel Writer
Description: Like many travelers, I used to feel that the purpose was to collect as many passport stamps as possible. To race through cities and countries, seeing as much as I could. Only when I got a bit older did I realize that, as Caroline Mills also learned, the best travel experience often comes when you stay still.
Staying still is not so simple. The environment around you changes, and these changes can be exciting, but they can also be distressing. The Australian philosopher Glenn Albrecht coined the term 'solastalgia' to explain this particular feeling of hurt when a familiar place...