Why our journeys run an hour or more

Every journey on Slow Travel TV runs at least an hour, and most run longer. That is a deliberate line. A short clip can only ever be a highlight; it grabs your attention and hands it straight back. An hour is long enough to stop performing for the camera, long enough for a place to simply be itself.

Long footage also changes how you watch. You stop waiting for the next thing to happen and start noticing the small ones: the light shifting, a station filling and emptying, the rhythm of a train over a bridge. That is where slow travel lives, and it is why we never cut it short.