ABSTRACT
Chapter 6, Unforgettable journeys: nostalgia, homesickness and other travel memories, looks at the nuanced relationship between travel and memory. Travel and migration can leave us with fond memories of the places we leave behind, often experienced as homesickness and nostalgia. But how are these different from each other? More positively, memories of home can also be used to help travellers make sense of newly encountered places. This chapter also explores the way the body and the senses help us to remember places we have previously visited. It also asks whether revisiting places can help to improve our memory capacity, especially with the help of technologies such as travel photography.
