This Sunday the winter buvette in Nyon will officially open at 11:00 a.m (with an “apéro” on offer!) at the plage of Nyon. The buvette and dutch bath will be open each weekend and will be run and organised by volunteers of the association of Les Bains des Tres Jetées. The association’s aim is to preserve this part of the lake area and to keep activities going throughout the year. In January there will also be a temporary sauna by the lake for use in the winter months.
Also on Sunday, over at Palexpo in Geneva, it’s the BIG Expat Fair called EXPAT EXPO. With over 180 exhibitors, this a great event for the English-speaking community. Even if you have lived here for a while it’s good to go and check out all the clubs, businesses and events that are around and available for the Anglophone. If you are new here these fairs provide an invaluable source of information.
Fancy being a writer or want to know more about the world of writing?
The Geneva Writers’ Group meets once a month from September to June in the Welcome Centre of Geneva and they are a friendly group of writers (120+ members) from beginners to published novelists to poets to screen play writers to travel writers. The group have many members from Nyon and those that come from further afield! The group will have a stand at Expat Expo if you want to know more about them.
Also at EXPAT EXPO on Sunday. At 13:00 there will be a World Radio Switzerland “Expat Life Special” in the conference room where the presenter Conor Lennon and myself will be taking any questions you may have about expat life. The show will be recorded for a later broadcast on WRS. See site for more details.
Want to know more about Swiss Politics in English?
There will also be a talk at 16:00 at Expat Expo by Jordan Davies called “Swiss Politics for Dummies”. Jordan Davis, the WRS expert in Swiss National Affairs, will give a presentation on what you should know about Swiss politics. Questions welcome. (at the WRS conference room)
I recommend this talk as it gives an excellent overview of the political situation here in Switzerland.
Other events back in Nyon this weekend. There’s jazz music on at the Usine a Gaz tonight at 21:00 with Malcon Braff Electric Tryo, and over at the Chateau de Prangins it’s the last few weeks of the photography exhibition called Conflit D’images.