A report from IPCC highlights that annual CO₂ emission should decrease to 3 tonnes per person by 2030 to stop – and hopefully start reversing – climate change. As I said above, I produces 3.4 tonnes in five days in 2019 – there is a lot of work to be done in this decade.

Society, as it is, does make taking time to travel slowly very difficult. We have less and less time (and money) and social media such as Instagram bombards us daily with images of idyllic places far away from home, pushing us to travel further and more frequently without thinking about it. When we do take the time to think, we often realise that to have a nice time, we don’t really have to go far from home. Of all the travelling I have done in the last couple of years, the one I cherish the most is a weekend away with my husband in a treehouse in Devon, surrounded by the forest and a 10-minute walk away from the beach. Thinking about it, my long hauls aren’t even in my top-five holidays.

“In 2019, I took 19 flights. This year, I am going flight-free.”