Some tips for travelling
- Pack light and clever. It takes experience but you can find great tips all over the internet. Don’t overpack, pack clothes that don’t show the dirt, take your own re-usable stuff (e.g. earphones)
- Book green B&Bs, hostels or hotel rooms
- Go native – eat, shop and hire local wherever you are. All-inclusive holidays and package deals mostly have the biggest emissions as corporate tourist agencies choose the easiest but least green options
- Seek out quieter, less popular destination or routes. Overtourism is a curse and tourist hotspots are often environmental disasters. Don’t be part of the Instagram Tsunami.
- Make the journey the holiday with multiple stop-overs in interesting locations on a round-trip – see https://www.seat61.com/
- Take fewer but longer holidays, which works great if you can work remotely, and spend time getting to know your destination instead of aiming to tick off everything on a bucket list
- A change is as good as a break, so try either volunteering for outside work e.g. with the National Trust, or for board and lodging somewhere in Europe on a farm (Wwoof https://wwoof.org.uk/en/)
- If you are set on (or resigned to) flying and can afford more than the cheapest flight, seek out the lowest emissions routes, aircraft and flights. The difference will be significant
