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: 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 [...]
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 [...]
Here is the second film review from Trish Thalman on the film “No Estoy Muerto Solo Estoy Dormido” (I’m not dead, only asleep) directed by J.S Lopez Maas. She says “this is an interesting insight into the Afro-Peruvians living in Peru and I encourage people to go and see it. It’s delightful with beautiful photography, wonderful people and opens a new perspective on [...]
Photo above and below from ”A Home Far Away” - courtesy Visions du Réel The second review on this site of a film to be shown at Visions du Réel 2012, has been written by Trish Thalman. Trish is originally from California and lives in Gland and has been reviewing films for this site for the previous two years. Read her personal footnote to [...]
The Visions du Réel Festival starts today in Nyon and we have two pairs of tickets up for grabs for film screenings for readers of this site. Just email cnp at bluewin.ch with your name and telephone number by 22:00 on Friday 20th April. Names will go into a hat and 2 lucky winners will be informed on Saturday a. m [...]
Scottish country dancing in Nyon! Time to get the kilt out! # Follow @lifeinnyon
