Flight shame is dead

[Olive]

I have done more than my share of travelling and about five years ago I resolved never to travel by air again.   I used to regard my friends as a fairly enlightened bunch but I've found that apart from my husband and one distant relative none of them share my views.   And as for acquaintances and neighbours... they're all proudly off on bloody cruises and tropical holidays.   Friends in London are constantly off on cheap "mini-breaks", which seem utterly pointless.

It's hard to have any kind of conversation about travel without coming across as sanctimonious though.   What do you say when someone asks you about travel plans for the year?   How to get some kind of message across without being offensive?