Spring is in the air and is there any place that can bring that more to life than the Schilliger Garden Centre? To celebrate the season, they are holding a “little” spring festival on the 1st and 2nd of May for big and small alike! As a family business, and one strongly attached to the […]
From Blues to Big Fox to Burning the Bonhomme – Events this weekend
Friday 20th March – Blues concert – Zakiya Hooker (daughter of John Lee Hooker) will be singing tonight at the Château of Coppet – Details here Writing Workshop in English Saturday 21st March – Writing workshop in Geneva in English at the Geneva Writers’ Group. The subject will be “Writing Folk Tales”. See how “Once upon a time… ” opens the […]
Easter Market on Sunday, Decorated Fountains around town
This Sunday the 13th April, it’s the Easter market in Nyon. There will be stalls in the Rive area of town and activities. Locally produced goods for sale from 08:00 to 18:30 Also check out the decorated fountains around Nyon, an annual tradition at this time of year. Photo below of a decorated fountain in […]
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 […]
More music this weekend. Photo opportunities at at the Bol d’Or.
Although the Caribana festival finished last week, there is more music on the way as the first part of La Fete de la Musique will take part in Nyon on Saturday 15th June and on Sunday 16th in Prangins (part 2 will be next weekend). There’s a full programme of music on the agenda, bands […]
