Monday, 29 November 2010

Geneva x Switzerland...

Just heard from a Swiss that Geneva does not behave like part of Switzerland...
At this point I have to admit I missed the Hungarian snow cleaning.
Saturday we had a kind of snow fall, just 10-15cm. What the city of Budapest starts to clean even before the snow starts to fall.
Well again, in Geneva at 13h in the afternoon we had not seen any track of any snow remover truck, not even in the city center. During most of the day people simply couldn't catch a bus or a tram because there was such an amount of snow everywhere that they just couldn't drive. The same happened for foreigner who don't know driving, they stuck in the middle of the streets and the highway!

When we come to a country whose half of it is about alps and snow, we expect to be able to walk on a sidewalk without slipping, well, this was not possible in Geneva. The government excuse was that the fall was too heavy, I think russians and who are used to this were laughing. Even the tram system stopped for half day.

Hope next time will be better and we won't have to do what most genevois do, they just stay home eating swiss Chocolate and fondue, that I can't do every time it snows...

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