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.
The Commonwealth – Crossing continents and many Countries. (photo of the video screen on an aeroplane seat!) Here are a few of the events happening around the area, and in Geneva over the next couple of weeks. The first is another meet up of Male Trailing Spouses at Les Brasseurs pub in Nyon TONIGHT 10th May at 20:00. Just turn up [...]
Happy Easter to all Living in Nyon readers! Here are just a selection of events coming up in the area in April and May. More events will be posted on here in the next few days. Included in this post are photos taken recently in and around the Nyon area and at last Sunday’s Easter market. 29th April [...]
Nyon tourist office have started a new initiative by offering tours in English on Saturday mornings, every first Saturday of the month. This year tours will be on this Saturday April 2nd, then on May 7th, June 4th, July 2nd, September 3rd and October 1st. You do not need to reserve for this tour, you just turn up! On [...]
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 [...]
The term “trailing spouse” is often used when referring to the accompanying partner of an employee who has been relocated to a new country. Up to a few years ago, this usually meant a woman following her husband or partner to that new area. Today however, there are many male trailing spouses that have followed their partners due to a company move. [...]
Photo above: Musicians playing outside post office in Nyon. Living in Nyon is delighted to announce that not only does it have a new writer (Francesca Brewer-Krebs) on the team, but it is also introducing a new section to the site for newly arrived expatriates. This section is called “Back to Basics” and will attempt to explain in simple terms [...]
In March 2011 the the internet club of Nyon “Club Soft” (Société pour l’Ordinateur et les Férus de Technique) will celebrate its 20th year anniversary. The club was originally founded by Jean-Paul Henet, a French expatriate now living in Nyon. Mr Henet previously worked with IBM, Univac, Leasco, Itel, and was both European President of Greyhound Computer and CMI Corp. Mr Jean-Paul Henet Mr Henet [...]
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 [...]
Every two years the International Women’s Club of Nyon holds a charity bazaar in the Salle Communale in the centre of Nyon and this year it will take place on Saturday November 6th from 10:00 -16:00. This event is a big money raiser for Nyon, local and International charities. These charities include La Maison des Enfants à Nyon [...]
Photo at top: calm before the storm in Nyon. Photo above: the storm in Nyon this week! There are two tickets up for grabs (worth 30chf each) for the 2nd November for the first night of the play “Quartet” which will be performed by the Geneva English Drama society next week in Coppet. On that night [...]
Scottish country dancing in Nyon! Time to get the kilt out! # Follow @lifeinnyon
