Prangins International Club has a new website. Raising multilingual children workshop

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Back in 2008 Living in Nyon met members of Prangins International and reported about networking and living in Prangins and wrote about it here.  At the beginning of October this year, we went back to the pretty village near Nyon to meet club members at  Prangins International’s monthly coffee morning, and discovered that among other new activities the club now has an updated website.  [...]

“Living along Lac Léman” book is now for sale! – The perfect gift for everyone.

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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 [...]

Nyon beaches make it into “Most Beautiful Beaches” list. Railway station gets upgrade. Rive Jazzy on this weekend

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Photo above – one of the cultural activities of Nyon’s Bains de Trois Jetees association. Nyon’s main beach,  the “Plages de Trois Jetées”,  the “Plage de Promenthoux” in Prangins, and the “Plage de Céligny”, have all made it into the list of “Most Beautiful Beaches in Swiss Romande” . This list, festured in the July 7th issue of  “L’Hebdo”, was compiled by [...]

Garage sale in Prangins all this week

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Photo above – Château de Prangins A reader has sent this notice to Living in Nyon of a garage sale taking place at her house this week. “Everything must go! – House and garage full of items to sell or give away; all furniture, all large and small appliances, linens, HD Plasma TV’s, DVD players, tools, [...]

Lighting up the night in Prangins

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At around 18:00 on Saturday night, the grounds of the Chateau of Prangins were full of volunteers all carefully placing candles around the trees, in the courtyard, and in the castle’s vast kitchen garden. Children, mothers, fathers, teenagers, grandparents and many, many others, lined up 60,000 candles into pre-arranged patterns, all working patiently in the [...]

Networking and Living in Prangins

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“There is so much going on here in Prangins,” says Maureen Goodman”, a member of Prangins International. “The village has a surprising number of events and activities scheduled throughout the year, from dance classes to sports and theatre groups, to its own choir, there’s a lot to chose from”. Prangins International meets the first Thursday [...]

Candles, Cows and Crunch time for the Candidates

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Not all election intrigue is happening over in the U.S.A right now. Forget John, Sarah, Barack or Joe, over here in Nyon, all eyes are on the result of the votes for Maurice, Daniel, and Jean. Current campaigning will come to a close soon and on Sunday the votes will be cast. Will it be [...]

Merry Wives and Merry Germans – Prangins and Nyon last night

There were was a wonderful local modern parallel going on last night during the production of the “Merry Wives of Windsor” at the chateau in Prangins. While the actors were playing a scene from the 16th century involving flag waving, loud Germans who shouted at the audience, at the same time there were hundreds of [...]