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@dancing james
Geneva was fucking awesome 10-20 years ago. Amazing club and young persons art culture. Lots of really cool squat venues with their own bars, weed and hash available etc etc.
http://www.weetamix.com/fr/index.php was always cool and am glad to see its still running.
The person I would hold most responsible for the electronic/dance music culture in Geneva is Oli who runs http://mentalgroove.ch/ He was flying to the UK in 88 to go raving and started bringing records back and putting on raves in Geneva. This then led to his shop and record label, and the record label is still going, effectively Geneva's answer to Warp records.
Most of my friends from that time were musicians and DJ's and the majority relocated to Berlin.
I cycled a bit (not seriously) around and even took a cable car up a mountain into France just to be able to freewheel nearly the whole way back to Geneva.
Roads tended to be well de-iced, but I'd look to have mudguards and wider tyres. Drive train would need pretty regular attention due to salty sludge from the roads.
tl;dr Geneva makes me feel nostalgic for my youth.