Big Expat Fair and Career Fair this weekend in Lausanne – Reminder book signing today, other events

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On Sunday 6th November it’s the Leman Expat Fair. Over 120 Swiss and international businesses and services with experience in serving the English-speaking community will be in one place under the same roof at the Beaulieu in Lausanne. Whether you have just arrived in Switzerland, or have been here for a while, these fairs are a great way of finding out what’s [...]

New sports hall and classroom space at Brillantmont International School.

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Brillantmont International School in Lausanne is getting bigger! If you are driving near the park “Mon Repos” in the centre of Lausanne, you will probably come face to face with a construction site. This is the new project of Brillantmont International School in Lausanne (see previous post about this school), which is building a multi-purpose hall [...]

Brillantmont – A traditional school with a family atmosphere, modern outlook and help for working parents

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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 [...]

From Georges Simenon’s pipe to Vaud produce – Christmas shopping in Lausanne

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  Last-Minute Christmas Shopping – For this post, Living in Nyon’s new writer Francesca Brewer-Krebs, travels out of Nyon to check out  the local shops in the old town of Lausanne.   All of these shops are walkable or accessible by bus from the railway station, perfect if you don’t want to take the car out in this snowy weather! Over to Francesca. [...]