You're right about the Swiss being rubbish when it comes to snow..but pretty please dont spread the word to other European countries.... ^^

Have a safe trip back to the UK!

Oh really ?! 

Can you please find me one country IN THE WORLD  where you leave your laptop and passport ...

Be safe,

Medicis

Its a fair point ... wasn't really a criticism of Geneva though I can see it may have read that way !

"  The Swiss are just as rubbish as the Brits when faced with unexpected snow"

Maybe  Geneva (Canton) cannot handle unexpected snow-but I doubt if that necessarily means Switzerland or the Swiss cannot handle unexpected snow.

In the past 20-odd years, Geneva has had some fairly mild winters so, for economic reasons, equipment for heavy snowfalls wasn’t purchased in huge quantities:  it’s expensive to buy and expensive – and bulky –to store.

At the time of  the week-long snowfall in the 1980s, it was suggested that the TPG should borrow bus snow tyres from the Lausanne transport company.  However, apart from getting them to Geneva, there was the question of mounting the tyres.  Extra skilled staff would have been needed – and where were they to be found for a short assignment?

I don’t hold a brief for the TPG (or any other public enterprise) but I do recognize that it’s a juggling act to keep the users happy by providing comfortable vehicles at affordable fares while balancing the network’s maintenance costs and the need to employ experienced staff who, in addition to driving skills, have to cope with an international public speaking a variety of versions of English, French or whatever.

I’m just as inconvenienced by the snow as anyone else, but I do appreciate that the authorities can’t always furnish immediate solutions for every contingency that Mother Nature chooses to send our way.

Do you have any tips in terms of finding accomodation in Geneva? I have come across so many scams it is just frustrating. I am from Vancouver and even there we sometimes fail when up against snow :)