Welcome and Bienvenue to Living in Nyon, a site in English all about living in the town and surrounding area. Articles, news, events, and useful links.
Photo above taken at the Bol D’or in 2007. This famous yacht race will take place this year from the 15 -15 June 2012 News – Living in Nyon was featured in the 10 May issue of the Swiss magazine l’Hebdo in a four page article called ”Les Expatriés, Absurdes Boucs Emissaires” . In it, the article discussed the continued growth of [...]
Photo above - tulips in Nyon’s lake side park. There are some spaces left at the next event for expats on Tuesday the 22nd May in Nyon. This evening which is being organised by Nyon tourism, Migros école-club and Living in Nyon, is a chance for newly arrived (and not so new!) expats to meet and get together, to discover excursions that [...]
Photo above: New sculptures outside Nyon chateau as part of the Visarte Vaud initative There is a new Nyon council leaflet which has been published for its residents and distributed around the town. The leaflet is a handy reference to many of the free local events coming up in the area until the end of September. For [...]
Photo above: This year Elastique Citrique, the Nyon circus school worked with Visions du Réel to provide entertainment for both film goers and the public. Visions du Réel 2012 ended with a closing ceremony at the Théatre de Marens on Friday night with film makers stepping up to the podium to receive prizes in the various [...]
Photo above: courtesy Visions du Réel from the film “Sniegs” – “Snow Crazy”. The Visions du Réel film festival in Nyon finishes today the 27th April with a prize giving ceremony at 19:30 at the Théatre de Marens in Nyon. The ceremony will then be followed by the screening of the film ”Vivan las Antipodas!” featuring the landscapes [...]
Photo above from Tahrir: courtesy Visions du Réel Film review from the Visions du Réel festival of “Tahrir – Place de la Liberation” directed by Stefano Savona. Note: Although this film is not scheduled to be screened again in the official programme, a selection of prize winning films from the festival will be shown on Saturday 28 at the Salle [...]
Photo above – crowd at Paléo 2011. There was a mad rush for Palèo tickets when they went on sale yesterday at midday and festival organisers announced that it took just 5.5 hours for all tickets to be sold-out. Concerts for the Sunday sold-out in 14 minutes, those for Thursday, Friday and Saturday in less than 45 [...]
“Reunion – Ti Ar Etter Krigen” showing tonight at the Capitole 2, this film review is written by Suzy Nelson-Pollard. The international world premiere of « Reunion – ten years after the war » directed by Jon Haukeland, was shown yesterday at the Vision du Réel film festival and will be repeated again today at 18:00 at [...]
The following film review of “Forbidden Voices” is written by Suzy Nelson-Pollard. Forbidden Voices will be shown on Monday 23rd April at 10:o0 am at the Salle Communale. How much do you value the freedom of speech in your country? Are you free to post observations on Facebook, cries for change on Twitter, criticism on your blog? What does it [...]
After the great success of the “Fun Fondue” night for newly arrived expats back in February this year, another “Welcome to La Côte” event has been organised by Nyon tourism, Migros école- club Migros and Living in Nyon. This second event on the 22nd May is in response to the survey that was carried out at the fondue evening. Please note, places [...]
Scottish country dancing in Nyon! Time to get the kilt out! # Follow @lifeinnyon
