Leaving Florence - a podcast by BBC Radio 4

"It's well within living memory," writes Sarah Dunant, "that tourism and travel was a wondrous thing."

But times have changed: "It feels as if every unnecessary journey we make now has the dull drumbeat of global fragility and climate change in the background."Sarah ponders where foreign travel goes from here.

Producer: Adele Armstrong

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