Have green baggage, will travel

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clipped from www.smh.com.au Have green baggage, will travel Higher fares to offset the damage planes do to the environment are unlikely to put us off budget travel, writes Julian Lee. In a previous life, I was a terrible sinner. When my wife and I lived in London, it didn't take much to persuade us to pack our bags, jump onto one of the many budget airline websites and book a flight to just about anywhere we wanted to go. We didn't need an excuse. The newspapers were full of offers shouting out fares of £10 return to places I had never heard of. Carcassonne, Lodz and Posen were just waiting to be discovered. It didn't seem to matter that I had never expressed a desire to visit any of these places before. Now, with the help of the boom in cheap flights, we could be anywhere by late Friday night, enjoy a whirlwind tour of the delights it had to offer and be back at work on Monday morning, albeit bleary eyed and a little bit late. clipped from www.smh.com.au Edited extract from How Good Are You? - Clean Living in a Dirty World by Julian Lee