The Golden bar, the Golden rule of Paléo and Announcing the artists on the big stage Paléo starts today the 19th of July. This will be the 41st festival. It began as a small folk event in Nyon’s community hall back in 1976 and has since evolved into one of Europe’s biggest music festivals. Part of the whole Paléo experience is when Mik Clavet […]
Heritage vegetables – Fresh produce at a Bio farm shop near Nyon
Heritage vegetables, bio products, chickens and cheese at a bio farm near Nyon For those readers who like to source bio (organic) products and to buy their food from a local grower, La Ferme des Pralies (tucked away in the hamlet of Arnex), is well worth a visit. This bio-garden and farm shop not only sells fresh local, seasonal […]
New! Living in Nyon and Know-it-all passport start Podcasting!
Catherine from Living in Nyon and Lisa from the website Know-it-all passport, have teamed up and created a podcast called “Living in the Know”. For their first short ten minute podcast they have chosen to feature a selection of local events scheduled for November 2015 From where to go for Thanksgiving, to a talk on the local school system, and an […]
Interview with Philip Jennings – General Secretary of Uni Global Union in Nyon
Here is the second of the Living in Nyon interviews with influential individuals who live in the La Côte area. See previous interview with Daniel Rossellat (Nyon mayor and head of Paléo) here. Here we speak to Philip Jennings – Jennings, Welshman, rugby lover and former volunteer firefighter – was listed in Bilan magazine as one of the […]
Swiss local politics – “The drama is hidden behind the geraniums”
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 […]
