Tokyo by bike, Rio by sailboat, Stockholm by train… Travel re-enchanted by not using planes – Libération

Young eco-friendly executives favor gentle mobility and choose slowness, even if it means spending more time reaching their destination. They tell “Libération” about their journeys.

Simon can't wait. With his partner, it will take them around twenty hours by train compared to two and a half hours by flight to taste the cinnamon buns, these delicious Swedish cinnamon buns, at the foot of pretty red houses along the water. Before that, they will stop to visit Hamburg, Germany. “The journey will start well before Stockholm, in fact,” se rejoices the thirty-year-old. The idea to do without flying came to him while hanging out on YouTube. He comes across a vlog by travel influencer Bruno Maltor. The words still resonate in the head of the developer, originally from Villenave d'Ornon, near Bordeaux: “The journey is part of the journey.” His partner already reads a lot about ecology, they limit their waste as much as possible. So after Japan by plane, their next June vacation will be without kerosene.

Re-enchant the moment of transport, accept the slowness, see the landscapes pass by… Aware of the weight of the airline sector in global warming (2.4% to 5% according to estimates), young working people who are fond of traveling abroad are abandoning more and more tarmacs to favor low-carbon mobility. The footprint can increase very, very quickly, attests the Ademe comparator. A Paris-New York round trip generates almost as much as the