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.
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 [...]
Here’s a quick round up of local news taken from La Côte newspaper plus events coming up in the region. Drop in CGN passengers numbers due to poor summer weather CGN (Compagnie Générale de Navigation – the company that run the boats on Lac Léman) announced that due to the bad weather over the summer months, the company saw a drop in its [...]
iframe> Yacht race this weekend – Photo above cnp From the 17-19 June, the fabulous yacht race the “Bol D’ Or” will take place on Lac Léman. Yachts begin the race in Geneva on Saturday and sail as fast as they can down to the other end of the lake to Le Bouveret and back again. It’s [...]
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 [...]
Good news for those who need to shop after work during the week, as Nyon shops will now close Monday to Friday at 19:00 (instead of 18:30), and at 18:00 (instead of 17:00) on a Saturday. This new rule came into force on the 1st April. Shops that are exempt from this ruling are boulangeries, ice [...]
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 [...]
Photo above: Overlooking Nyon, taken from the top of the High School Events -Music There is a “Louis Armstrong” night down at the 1306 club tonight the 18th Feb Ruelle de La Poterne. Free entry (hat passed round for artists). See website for more details. Over at La Parenthèse (Grand Rue in Nyon )the French/ Danish duo [...]
Nine men turned up to the Les Brasseurs pub on Tuesday night at the Living in Nyon organised event, all of them were male trailing spouses who have moved here to follow female partners who are working in Geneva or Vaud based companies and organisations. Michael Shevlin (right in photo), the author of the post on [...]
Living in Nyon has been contacted by a reader living in Genolier about this position with Orphan Aid. The position is based in Geneva but may be interesting to someone living in Nyon and looking for an interesting voluntary job. Details below. OA Africa is looking for a Switzerland Country Manager (voluntary) OrphanAid Africa is a registered charity based in Ghana [...]
Scottish country dancing in Nyon! Time to get the kilt out! # Follow @lifeinnyon
