Visit of HRH Prince Charles and Camilla Duchess of Cornwall to Lyon on the 8th May 2018 FIBA was represented by Professor Colin McGuckin and the FIBA president Philip Last, along with other members of the British community and of course many Lyonnais who were keen to meet with the Royal family. http://www.leprogres.fr/rhone-69-edition-lyon-metropole/2018/05/08/en-direct-suivez-la-visite-du-prince-charles-et-de-camilla First we […]
April business lunch
Our speaker for April’s business lunch was Frédéric Crouzet, founder and creator of This is Lyon This is Lyon is the Lyon website which is 100% English, so this attracts two main personas….expats and tourists! Frédéric explained his professional background as a journalist as well as some of the tips and tricks of setting up […]
FIBA Special Event – Curling Night 23 Jan 2018
To start the New Year, we began with something a little different. Joanna Kelly, one of our members, is Broadcast manager for the World Curling Federation and came up with a great idea! With the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games about to get underway in South Korea, FIBA members were invited to ‘Come & Try’ the […]
New Year International Cocktail
This year’s International cocktail took on a Chocolate theme, as we decided, along with the Presidents from EACC (American), BBC (Belgian), CEE6 (6th district), DBRA (Dutch) business clubs to hold our event at the NewTree Café a new business started by Bernard Goret from the Belgian business club. Over 80 business club members assembled and enjoyed […]
100 year commemoration service at St. Germain au Mont d’Or
On the 18th November 2017, FIBA joined other members of the British community in Lyon (BCC, RBL, RAF, Association France-Grande-Bretagne, to name just a few) to commemorate, along with, it seemed, the entire population of St. Germain au Mont d’Or the Centenary of the establishment of a military hospital in St. Germain. FIBA member Garth Drury can be […]