Happy Easter To All Living In Nyon Readers! Decorated Fountains, Easter Celebrations And (Hopefully) The First Signs Of Spring…

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        Decorated Fountains Around Nyon Walking around Nyon, you might have seen one of the numerous decorated fountains across town. A local tradition, the fountains are decorated each year at Easter by local schools, groups and shops, for the pleasure of all. A “treasure hunt” is organised around these fountains: each fountain [...]

Go On A Cruise On Lake Leman For Easter, Circus Workshop And Shows

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  Courtesy- cgn.ch Easter Cruise On Lake Leman Why not enjoy Easter Sunday on a cruise around Lake Leman, with a delicious meal prepared specially for the occasion! The menu costs 55.- per adult and 27.50 per child (6-12 year old). Phone +41 (0)848 811 848 to book. For the complete menu, see here   [...]

Happy Valentine’s Day to all Readers!

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Neil Young And Crazy Horse To Play At Paleo Festival !

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Neil Young And Crazy Horse To Play At Paleo Festival ! Earlier this month, Paleo confirmed that this year’s edition will start with what promises to be an amazing concert by rock’n’roll legend Neil Young.  20 years after his last concert on the plain of l’Asse, he will be performing his latest album, Psychedelic Pill, with [...]

Talk tonight on local Swiss schooling – Transport options

For those readers heading off to the talk on Swiss schooling tonight, a reminder that the closest parking is at La Combe shopping centre. The Perdtemps car park  is approximately a 10 minute walk from the Uni Global Union. Nyon train station is a 5 minute walk from UNI Global Union.  For all parking options [...]

Day two; Sun, Guinness and a lot of noise

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Photo above – Broukar – copyright Paléo/ Lionel Flusin. Review of  Wednesday’s night Paléo by Jonas Parson. After a great start on Tuesday, the weather and the bands were there again on Wednesday to make sure everybody enjoyed their evening. The weather was even warmer, the bands even crazier and people everywhere seemed like they [...]

Events around and news from around the area.

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Living in Nyon is taking a short winter break and will be back at the end of January. In the interim if you would like to know what events are happening this month around the area, the best place to check in the first instance is Nyon Region Tourism Office (link here) .    Alternatively check the “agenda [...]

From Lloyds to Lunches to Local Issues – All in a day’s work for Axel Niels – commercial director of the “Terre Bonne” business Park in Eysins.

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  This is a second part of a feature “Living and Working in Eysins” (see part one here). Here we speak to the commercial director of the Terre Bonne business park, set just on  the outskirts of the village.  With over 400 staff already in place, and a planned total of 1,500 due to be established [...]

“Tower Heist” Film tonight, “New moon” fondue evening by lake, Clothing needed for asylum seekers and more

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   Cinema tonight The film “Tower Heist” will be showing tonight (in English) Monday 21st and Tuesday 22nd at 18:45 at Nyon cinema  starring Eddie Murphy, Ben Stiller and Casey Affleck. See trailer here on U Tube Quick synopsis: When a group of hard working guys find out they’ve fallen victim to a wealthy business man’s Ponzi [...]

Book signing at Nyon tourist office this Friday.

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Book Signing at Nyon Tourist Office  There will be a “Living along Lac Léman” book signing on Friday 4th November from 16:00 -18:00 at Nyon’s tourist office. No need to register, just come and pick up a copy, say “hello” and get it signed by the author. This will also be a good opportunity to speak to the [...]