Oxford to the Alps A new route to the slopes launches this winter, linking Geneva with the recently re-branded "London Oxford" airport, north of Kidlington. Baboo (00 800 445 445 45; flybaboo.com), a Swiss airline with five planes to its rather odd name, will run weekly Saturday flights from December 19 until March 27 (or later) from £180 return.Sign language The Signspotting series, collated by former Guardian columnist Doug Lansky, is now a cult hit, with such classics as the Tanzanian roadside sign warning drivers to "Beware of Invisibility". Volume 3: Lost in Translation (Five Mile Publishing, £6.99) has more brilliant examples, including one advising people to dial 999 on an emergency phone with only three buttons, marked 1, 2 and 3.Paris, je t'aime With hardly a glimpse of the Eiffel Tower, a promotional video from the Paris tourist board is attracting attention on the web – perhaps because its star is something even more quintessentially French: snogging. Kisses from Paris, directed by Yvan Attal, features a young couple canoodling at the Château de Vincennes, the Saint-Ouen flea market and the Palais de Tokyo, and is two-parts cringey, three-parts brilliant. See tinyurl.com/pariskiss.CO2 turn Responsible
travel.com, the online agent that runs the Responsible Travel Awards, has turned its back on carbon offsetting – where travellers pay for carbon-reduction programmes to compensate for flights – describing it as a "dangerous distraction". It says it will encourage travellers to fly less – though it still offers skiing holidays in
Japan.Write way to IstanbulEscape awardsESCAPE AWARDS Ian Belcher was last week named French Travel Writer of the year for his Escape story in July about the Languedoc. It's the latest in a haul of awards: earlier this month Elizabeth Day won best feature at the Caribbean Tourism Organisation awards for her piece on Dominica, while Steve McClarence won Travel Journalist of the Year at the Northwest Tourism Awards ...
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