Snow

Lots and lots of snow today, it began this morning and has not stopped, building up quite a layer of the white stuff. Some one recently told me this city is useless at dealing with snow, a very reassuring thing to hear when you live at the top of a hill! The story goes that a couple of years ago the council didn't salt the roads enough  and when the streets turned to ice the authorities decided it was too dangerous for them to go out and help people, nice!
Unlike the UK the snow is actually falling and settling during the day. By comparison, if snow is to last in the UK it has to fall during the night, and then in the morning everyone wakes up to a beautiful white scene, and children shouting "Mum, Dad it's snowed, it's snowed!"
We walked into town this morning and the big one was so excited by the snow she couldn't move five metres at a time without bending down to scoop up a handful and then slipping over. So I got very cold fingers from continually brushing the snow from her trousers in an attempt to keep her dry and warm.
We were aiming to go to something called Trees and Lights, sadly it appears as though the snow put this off, or perhaps it just doesn't work in day light. The gumpf advertising the event really ought to point that out. Whilst lights during the day maybe a bit tricky, it's fair to say that Geneva hasn't really done broad daylight in a couple of weeks now.  I'm not expecting to see the sun over the city for a while.
Sticking to our plan we continued to cross the river, with the snow scooping and the headlong sliding from the big one this took a good 10 minutes, although it was lots of fun. Our hope was to find a Christmas market, we knew should be there. Sadly, it was the smallest, most pitiful excuse for a Christmas market I've ever seen. Cologne has nothing to fear, but then neither does Gawcott. Oh well, it was a bit of a failure, so we got back on the bus, with half of Geneva, and headed for Manor to have lunch, where we found the other half of the city, hiding, sensibly, from the falling snow.