Geneva Roundup

 The main story of these past few days is that following on from a surprising popular vote just over a week ago, our local government - who is also my employer - has passed a law banning smoking in the vast majority of public spaces from the 1st of July this year.

I don’t think I mentioned the results of the vote but more than 55% of the population voted and almost 80% approving banning smoking in public spaces.

The government’s buildings are smoke-free since the 2nd of January this year and the general ban on smoking enters into force in the same year. It’s almost too good to be true.

I’m an intolerant ex-smoker and smoked almost two packs a day before giving up 25 years ago. I’m looking forward to going into restaurants and bars that were previously too smoke-filled for me.

I’m very pleased.

Two other pieces of news :

• The Geneva Motor Show will start in a few days time and Geneva will live the effervescence of the event as usual. Don’t plan to visit over the next ten days as the hotels are all booked up.
• Geneva will be recycling some of Naples waste (180,000 tonnes of it) in our incineration plants.