Title: Castle hopping/hike
Location: Nyon, Prangins and more
Link out: Click here
Description: Spend the day seeing the castles in beautiful Vaud. An 8-km hike and tour that takes approximately 4.5 hours.
Date: 2010-07-31
Title: Castle hopping/hike
Location: Nyon, Prangins and more
Link out: Click here
Description: Spend the day seeing the castles in beautiful Vaud. An 8-km hike and tour that takes approximately 4.5 hours.
Date: 2010-06-05
Title: Flea market in Nyon
Location: Nyon
Link out: Click here
Date: 2010-04-25
Title: Nyon’s decorated fountains
Location: Nyon
Description: The city fountains are decorated with Easter-color lights which hide mysterious words. Visitors can put together the sentence if they visit all of the fountains. For additional information call: +41 79 294 1003.
Start Date: 2010-04-01
End Date: 2010-04-05
Title: Hindi Sahara speaks of love
Location: Nyon, Vaud
Link out: Click here
Description: Sahara sings rock ballads, soul from the desert and blues.
Date: 2010-02-19
Title: Love stories (at the library)
Location: Nyon, Vaud
Link out: Click here
Description: There is something to be said about spending an evening surrounded by love stories told in French.
Start Time: 20:00
Date: 2010-02-17
Title: Expat Expo 2009
Location: Geneva, Palexpo
Link out: Click here
Description: Annual indoor information fair with 180 exhibitors, for the English-speaking international population: services, products, families welcome!
Start Time: 11:00
Date: 11 Oct 2009
End Time: 17:00
Title: Nyon’s monthly flea market
Location: Nyon, Vaud
Link out: Click here
Description: Each month Nyon is inundated with sellers (professionals and amateurs) as well as buyers looking for bargains. The market will resume in September.
Date: 26 Jul 2009
This is the second of three articles that together make up the English version of a feature published 2 April 2009 by Swiss news weekly L’Hebdo magazine on expatriates in the Lake Geneva region. GenevaLunch, a partner of l’Hebdo brings you the English version.
French version © 2009 l’Hebdo
English version © 2009 GenevaLunch (may not be reproduced in part or whole without written permission.
[Part 2, continued] By Julie Zaugg and Mehdi Atmani In Geneva alone there are 65,000 expats, of whom 40,000 are international organization employees and their families. Philip Morris in Lausanne employs 180 of them, Japan Tobacco International, also in Lausanne 157, Procter & Gamble in Geneva 500 and Nestlé in Vevey 584.
Where do they come from?
Americans were still the majority of expats just a few years ago, but they’ve given way to Europeans, with the Schengen Area and the free movement of people as the impetus. Read more…
