Caroline Mills on 'Solastalgia' and Making Slow Travel Work as a Professional Travel Writer

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 changes due to forces, often malevolent, often unstoppable. Caroline Mills joined the travel writing podcast to discuss slow travel, pitching slow-travel stories to editors, the life of a professional travel writer trying not to move too fast, and her new book "This is Not My Land" about 30 years on a farm in the Cotswolds in the British countryside, published by Bradt Guides and out now.