In 2005, Seneca Productions finished an hour-long documentary about going on holiday, based on Alain de Botton’s bestselling book, The Art of Travel. The film is a witty, thought-provoking examination of why we travel and of what can go wrong when we do so. As the point of going travelling is usually to be happy, when things don’t go as we planned, we tend to end up doubly unhappy: not just unhappy, but unhappy that we’re unhappy.

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