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.
Tuesday evening in Nyon saw the official launch of the book “Living along Lac Léman”. Thankyou so much to all those who came to the Villa Thomas at the COV for the vernissage/launch. Photos above. Happy book fans! The venue in the stunning lake side setting made it the perfect place to launch the book. It also gave readers of [...]
Cleaning up the Toblerones, Barn dance, Arthur Smith at comedy night, Climate Conference, English Theatre, Rock at Usine, Next male trailing spouse meet up and Big Rugby match Photo above – Rock group Bench playing down at the Usine à Gaz tonight. There are lots of events scheduled for March in Nyon and the surrounding area. Here is a selection of them [...]
Spotlight on Schools 1 - Living in Nyon goes behind the scenes of the three schools that are currently advertised on the site. We begin with Brillantmont International School in Lausanne. Hung in the entrance hall of this school is an electronic board that gently reminds pupils that the mid year exams are not far away; just one example of the school using modern [...]
It can’t have escaped your notice that it’s local election time again as campaign posters from all the political parties spring up around the towns and villages of Vaud. The candidates that are putting themselves forward for the Nyon elections usually can be found Place St-Martin (in the centre of Nyon) every Saturday morning. They are [...]
A reader has sent me details of this apartment to rent in Gland details below. Photo above -the Swissquote building in Gland (note this photo was taken last summer so stock prices maybe somewhat different today!) Beautiful apartment for rent in Gland. Available immediately. Grand-Rue 61, Ground Floor Surface 150 m2 Apartment Monthly rent (excluding [...]
Living in Nyon has recently received a few questions from parents who are about to move to the area and who are considering putting their children into the local public schools. For those parents who have questions you might like to know that the canton of Vaud has recently produced a helpful website with the key facts to public schools [...]
From time to time Living in Nyon features articles which are written by guest writers. For this post, Phillipe Martinet, a local deputy and councillor in Gland for the past 25 years, has written about his perspective on local Swiss politics. He sums up what he feels he has (or hasn’t!) achieved in the 25 years that he has been [...]
Despite the cold temperatures last Saturday morning there was a good turn out of Gland residents who took their Christmas trees to the annual big “burn up”. The firemen were on hand to control the burning and to throw the trees on the fire. The organising committee provided wine, hot chocolate, bread, cheese and sausages (cooked on the [...]
In English we call it Bingo, in French it’s Loto, and this month you will see a lot of posters advertising “Lotos” taking place around the area. They are organised by the many charities and clubs as their main fund raising events of the year. They are very popular events and last week Living in Nyon went to one organised [...]
Scottish country dancing in Nyon! Time to get the kilt out! # Follow @lifeinnyon
