Dickens play comes to Nyon and Future events this month

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Date for your diary -Theatre production in English in Nyon on Friday 27th November. Win tickets to see it! Living in Nyon is delighted to announce it is in collaboration with the Usine a Gaz for the production of Dickens “Great Expectations”. This production will be in English and will be performed by Thêatre Kayonan and is a [...]

Business Networking in Romandie

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Business Networking and the Economist on those Online networking sites. There are a plethora of business associations in the Lake Geneva area, many of which organise networking events. Recent examples have been a talk by the CFO of Ebay International hosted by the British/Swiss Chamber of Commerce, to a Mentorship Café hosted by GWIT. (Geneva Women in [...]

Security in New York and Julia – Julia. Exhibition and movie in English in Nyon

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“Security” is the title of of a small photographic exhibition showing in the Focale Gallery in Nyon until the 22nd November. After the attacks to the city in New York on 11th September 2001, security measures have been tightened (control of identity cards, searches of bags in museums and libraries etc), all to reassure the population that [...]

Crans – Coffee, Tea, English Books and Art.

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There aren’t many places you can get a cup of coffee or tea for 1 Swiss Franc, browse through English books and look at art at the same time. But in Crans-Près Céligny you can. This is because the public library (in the salle communale in the centre of the village) has a whole section [...]

Nyon beach comes alive on Sunday. Expat Life, Swiss Politics at Expat-Expo

This Sunday the winter buvette in Nyon will officially open at 11:00 a.m (with an “apéro” on offer!) at the plage of Nyon. The buvette and dutch bath will be open each weekend and will be run and organised by volunteers of the association of Les Bains des Tres Jetées. The association’s aim is to [...]

News! "One off " big rock festival planned above Nyon.

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Nyon is extraordinarily lucky to have both Caribana and Paléo, two superb music festivals on it’s doorstep. However next Spring, rock fans will get the chance to have yet another as there will be a big “one off” festival in Longirod called Longirock in the hills above Nyon. The festival will take place from 13-15 [...]

Classic British Car Show and other local events this weekend

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This is a busy time of year in the area, the grape harvest is in full flow, la Chasse is now available in the restaurants, and on Saturday it’s the Autumn market in Nyon with fruit and veg, music and artisanal stands galore. The Roman museum in Nyon reopens today the 2nd and also today [...]

Behind the scenes of UEFA in Nyon

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There couldn’t be a greater contrast between the noise and frenzied excitement of a football match, to the calm and peaceful atmosphere within the walls of the UEFA building here in Nyon. In a long sleek building, an interior that is all light and glass, with smooth wooden and marble floors all in clean lines [...]