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.
Spring has finally sprung in Nyon and last Sunday locals, tourists (and lake birds !) were out and about in the sunny weather. Take a look at a selection of photos taken around the town at the week-end. Nyon and La Côte region were mentioned in the property section of the Financial Times on May [...]
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 [...]
Tonight 30th November, is the night that Prangins International Club are organising a pub crawl around Nyon! The beauty of this pub crawl is that you don’t have to go for the whole tour, there is an approximate timing of where everyone will be during the evening so you can join in at your favourite venue or [...]
Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) have decided to name one of its planes (an Airbus A320) after the city of Nyon. This is because the town is close to Geneva airport, because it such an attractive place for both residents and visitors, and due to the large number of companies who have chosen to base [...]
Masts blown up in Prangins The photos on this page were taken yesterday near the village of Prangins. The two radio masts (each weighing 70 tonnes!), have been a landmark in the area for many years and were blown up on Thursday by a special explosives team. You can read all about the masts’ history [...]
Photo above and in banner: Copyright – Hester Macdonald Gardening school in English Got green fingers and want to find out more about gardening? Hester Macdonald, who presents the popular gardening programme “Dig It”! on World Radio Switzerland, has now launched her own gardening school offering day courses in English, for amateurs, by professionals. She [...]
A reminder to readers that tonight (Tuesday 19 June) it’s the English movie night at the cinema of Nyon. The film to be schown is “My Week with Marilyn“. The film portrays the making of the 1957 film “The Prince and the Showgirl”, and stars Marilyn Monroe (Williams) and Laurence Olivier (Branagh). The film starts at 20:30 [...]
Photo above: Ceramic pots on sale at the Nyon Spring Market in 2008 The weather has finally warmed up and there’s lots going on here over the next few weeks in the Vaud area and a selection of events are listed below. Firstly though, Living in Nyon is delighted to announce that from time to [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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
