The Case for Slow Travel in an Age of Maximum Throughput

The modern model of travel is optimised for throughput. You fly in, you see the things, you photograph them, you leave. The holiday is a collection of experiences, and the measure of its success is how many have been accumulated.

You cannot understand a place in three days. You can see its monuments and eat its food and take its photographs. But understanding requires time, repetition, and the kind of accidental encounter that only becomes possible when you are not in a hurry to be somewhere else.