Sail like a Duke or a Count on Lake Geneva.

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Between the 13th and 17th century, galley ships sailed around Lake Geneva. These beautiful boats owned by the Dukes and Counts of the time, glided through the water and were used to protect the land and lake. Today you don’t have to be a member of the aristocracy to step on board one of these [...]

Chocolate for phones and new Nyon website

There’s a great initiative going on this weekend to encourage us to recycle our old mobile phones. If you take your old mobile phone along today, Friday and Saturday 16 May to the recycling point in Nyon in Chemin de Bourgogne 18 (open 08:30 -11:45 and 13:30 – 17:30) you will get a mobile phone [...]

Tempting visitors to try the local food – Idea from Nyon tourist office.

NOTE: Update Thursday 21 August. The Tourist Board have just informed me that they now have an English version of the voucher mentioned below. Also note, there are new events added for this weekend 23/24th August (under “Future Nyon” events on the sidebar).——————— As this is such a beautiful area it may not suprise you [...]

Dinner in France. Dessert or “Digestif” in Switzerland

The ferries that criss cross the lake are now running on their full summer season schedule and there are many sailings that go over from Nyon to Yvoire in France (just a 20 minute ride away). So its perfectly possible to leave Nyon when the sun is setting, go over to Yvoire for dinner and [...]