Photo above and in banner: Copyright - Hester Macdonald
Got green fingers and want to find out more about gardening? Hester Macdonald, who presents the popular gardening programme "Dig It"! on World Radio Switzerland, has now launched her own gardening school offering day courses in English, for amateurs, by professionals.
She and her team have put together a wide range of courses, to run over the whole year from September to June 2013. Many of these courses will run in the village of Prangins just a short distance from Nyon. For more details see here.
If so, did you know that Prangins has its own international club, that meets on a weekly basis? The main aim of Prangins International is "to create a support network for foreigners living in Prangins, to exchange information about what’s going on in the village and area. According to their website; one member put it, “This isn’t just a clique of Anglophones: it’s for anyone living in the village who wishes to converse in English". Living in Nyon featured this club a few years ago on this site, see post here and we'll be checking in with them in the not too distant future to see what's been happening in the club, and the village since then.
Photo above: The Château de Prangins - Copyright C. Nelson-Pollard
Swiss wine expert, international wine judge and GenevaLunch.com editor Ellen Wallace will be offering a seventy minute introduction to Swiss Wines and guided tour of the Vinea Swiss wines fair in English this Saturday the 1st September in Sierre.
Photo above: Copyright - Ellen Wallace This is a first for Switzerland’s largest outdoor wine event. The mini-course and visit to six winemakers’ stands under the white tents that line the main street of Sierre, canton Valais will cover the following: Swiss grape varieties, how to read Swiss wine labels and why Switzerland is one of the most environmentally-minded wine-producing countries. You will also learn more from Switzerland’s hundreds of mainly small and often artisanal but highly professional wine producers. There will be samplings of wine too with the background on where they fit into the bigger Swiss wines picture. Fee: CHF 60, which includes the CHF40 entry fee to Vinea (valid until the fair closes at 19:30 Saturday). For more details and to reserve see here