How many times a year do you go abroad be it for holidays or business?

Somewhere between 4-8 trips a year for work, mostly to US and sometimes Europe.

Probably do another 5-8 holidays a year, city breaks, that sort of thing.

Last few years is skewed though with COVID and things aren't back in full swing.

My biggest year was 18 trips with work, I was in the US for a week a month for a year, then in Germany for a week every 2 months.

It can be tough going, but it's been a long time since I spent money on a hotel room for myself, and usually free rental cars too. I don't get much use of the Avios points though. Work doesn't allow me to fly business class, so I have to hope for an upgrade that makes the transatlantics easier to stomach.

I treated my parents to a week abroad which didn't cost me a penny. They were thrilled.

5 return flights, 1 return ferry, so far, and there'll be another return ferry soon and 2-3 more return flights.

Up until this year myself and my other half took the usual one holiday abroad with family and a few hotel breaks. This year hotel breaks have either been non existent because of availability, or beyond our budget.

I do my best to conserve, reuse, recycle in life. But there are limits. I need to live too. This time last year my other half was in an ICU bed fighting for life, and spent the remainder of the year battling cancer. Our kids are at an stage where we can leave them at home, so we intend to grasp every bit of life left in us and get sun on bones and value for money. That won't happen in this country.

One holiday a year and maybe a match of two in uk. Sometimes don’t bother with a match. Tbh I’ll be looking to increase the number of holidays in the coming years. So I hope they don’t try to enforce anything like you are suggesting to keep us restricted to Ireland all year round.

Once a year usually. Take the ferry usually. Much less hassle than the airport.

OP’s gonna love you.

I spend almost half the year out of Ireland, mostly Australia, a little bit of Canada and US too. And some Europe. I burn a lot of aviation fuel, soz.

Twice so far this year, once to the US and also up to Newry. Planning on taking another few trips abroad (although not necessarily Newry).

Why did you fly to Newry. How much time did that save you?

It is also worth noting that a large dog can produce around 2.5 tons of CO2 per year, about the same as a long haul flight. Another way of reducing emissions could be to reduce the number of dogs people keep as pets.

I didn't fly, the question was: "How many times a year do you go abroad be it for holidays or business?"

I dont know about you OP but I live on a tiniy Island with sh!t weather. Im totally environmentally conscious in every way. In fact so much so that I bet my carbon footprint is a fraction of yours, including any flights I take.

But I have a question back for you OP. Tell me about your life and i'll explain your carbon footprint to you and how you can reduce it to what mine is.

4 times this year...

1 long haul flight to Australia to see my sister and some friends.

The other 3 flights were all within Europe.

I know, we all need to cut back on flights...

Would you mind listing out what this country has that would fulfil the requirement of “everything you’d need” ?

Sorry but I don’t see it myself but will happily jump on the Ireland has everything bandwagon with you if you can open my eyes a little.

14 flights so far this year, at Dublin airport right now waiting on a delayed flight ironically enough.

I feel as though the 'shouty' people will slowly get their way and flight prices will rise so I'm enjoying it while I can.