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.
The La Côte ”personality of the year” Award At the end of last year, the local newspaper La Côte decided to host a competition to elect the most influential personality of the year in the la Côte region. This competition was part of the newspaper’s aim to establish its role as an important player on the [...]
Photo above – from Swiss Press Photo 2012 exhibition in Prangins. Courtesy – Château de Prangins Here are a couple of selection of music events coming up this weekend in Nyon. Also on the 28th Feb, it’s the start of Les Hivernales music festival in venues around the town- see website here (more on [...]
We have been scouring other Swiss websites for a selection of news and articles that will interest Living in Nyon readers in our section called 1260+ (Nyon and beyond). Nyon News is at the end of this post Know it All Passport School holidays – Ûseful Dates – It’s the school holidays in Geneva this [...]
Neil Young And Crazy Horse To Play At Paleo Festival ! Earlier this month, Paleo confirmed that this year’s edition will start with what promises to be an amazing concert by rock’n’roll legend Neil Young. 20 years after his last concert on the plain of l’Asse, he will be performing his latest album, Psychedelic Pill, with [...]
A Very Merry Christmas to all readers!
Looking for ideas of where to go and how to entertain children during the winter season? The following article, “Out and About this Winter” written by Tracey Keenan and Nadia Leone of “Ready.. Steady..Lausanne and Vaud!” suggests ski resorts, ice skating , tobogganing and snowshoeing options for families. The article also includes a couple of indoor [...]
It’s the start of the pantomime season (oh, yet it is!) beginning with the Geneva Amateur Operatic Society’s production of Sinbad the Sailor. The GAOS website says- this “production is packed with all the usual ingredients of a classic English pantomime: the struggle of good overcoming evil, love at first sight, and loads of magic, [...]
There’s a new section on Living in Nyon called 1260+ This is a selection of useful and interesting articles, news, features and radio interviews to be found on other English websites across Switzerland. We’ll give you the links to each article or programme for you to click through to keep you up to date with [...]
The appropriately named “Les Hivernales” begins today 9th February and continues until Sunday 12th. This winter rock and music festival takes place in various venues across Nyon with live music bands coming from all over Switzerland and further afield. Tonight Nadeah from Australia will be playing at the Parenthese at 20:30. Portobello from Lucerne will playing at [...]
Photo above: the temperature in Nyon on Thurday morning. Do the freezing conditions in the Nyon area right now make you want to simply stay inside and curl up with a good book? If so, there are various local places where you can find English books both in local shops and in libraries. Nyon library has a small selection of [...]
Musical tuition for adults and children.
Classical and Jazz concerts.
German, English and French teaching school
in centre of Nyon.
Private Bankers in Nyon
Independence, transparency and security
Lake Leman International School Morges. Read article on school here.
International school in the centre of Lausanne
for 11-18 year olds
