Welcome to the 22nd All About France monthly link up all about France! You’re in the right place if you’re looking to link up a blog post, get some holiday inspiration or just have a read about your favourite country, France. If you’re a blogger and this is your first time linking up you might want to find out more here.
I’m writing this on the morning it seems that the word as we know it has changed forever, the morning we (Europeans) woke up to the horrific news that Trump has been elected. It feels like Brexit all over again and urgh, I’m finding it hard to concentrate. What’s next, Le Pen in 2017? I’m sure everyone here shares my disgust and despair but I shouldn’t go on….let’s focus on positive things, like our shared love of/interest in France. I’m looking forward to being distracted by inspiring tales of la belle France.
In other news, we had the most amazing time in Vietnam and I’d love to to tell you more about it here, but it really isn’t “all about France” so I better not. However, if you’re interested I have written my first piece about our holiday and all photos for the past 3 weeks in the posts entitled Sunday Photo have pics from Vietnam. As a tiny indulgence I’m including a couple of photos above and below of the French influence on Vietnamese food and language. Bread is widely available thanks to the French (as is la vache qui rit) and many words introduced into Vietnamese since colonial days, especially for food, use the French word. The menu above lists paté, saucisse (my favourite “xuc xich”), jambon and beef steak and below you can see a cement bag and train station, ciment and gare.
Moving swiftly on, despite having an extra week this time I only just finished reading everyone’s posts in time and I’m afraid I just haven’t had any extra time to count up who wrote the most comments but there was one name that seemed to pop up again and again and that was Emily from Lost in Lyon. I’m going out on a limb and guessing that she’s this month’s Top Commenter! As for my favourites here they are:
The Good Life by Our French Oasis
Morning in Montmartre by A Hole in my Shoe
Another fine mess, part 1 by Susie Kelly
Andy meets a dog with a well rehearsed party trick by Vaucluse Dreamer
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It was even more obvious 20 years ago Janet when lots of people spoke French. English has now well and truly taken over but yes, there is a definitely French influence in many things, not just food and language.
I was just hearing about the French influence in Vietnam from a friend! You say similar things.
I hope reading here helped Arnie….for the short term at least
Oh Vietnam is truly wonderful Rosemary, and I’m not at all biased!
Hmmm, apart from some architecture I find the comparison with Paris pretty far fetched really. 20 years ago there were a few more likenesses but even so, it’s Asia not Europe!
Coming soon Jacqui…watch this space!
There’ll be plenty more about VN over the coming weeks/months Paulita, I hope you come back for more!
How lovely to come in search of France and find some Vietnam too. Thanks for the opportunity to play along.
I loved seeing your holiday pics on Facebook and look forward to reading more about your adventures
Phoebe thank you so much for the shout out on my Montmarte post, so glad you enjoyed it. Funny you mention Vietnam and my recent post is from there, the Paris of Asia. The boulevards and the smell of freshly baked bread are the only similarities I found.
Sounds like Vietnam is a great place to visit. Thanks for organising the link-up despite how busy you must be!
Yes I can see how it could look like gardening! Glad you enjoy the linky.
I have so many words churning through my mind I don’t know where to start Elizabeth! You might have to wait a while for the majority.
Thanks for being here Diane 🙂
It was fab-u-lous Ema!
Glad you enjoy it Vanessa. As for Disqus maybe you should try and contact the blogger at the blog you want to leave a comment on through Twitter or email and see if they can rectify the problem. I personally never have any trouble with Disqus so I’m not sure what to say.
Our election results are the most appalling thing. I’m just disgusted. But, reading about France will help take my mind off of the hold thing. I hope.
I’m enjoying the distraction today reading about France but it’s hard NOT to think about the ramifications of such a terrible result.
Great to have you here Erin, you should get a good dose of Francophilia every month now yo know about it!
I know it’s not obvious from a written point of view but if pronounced with a Vietnamese accent it does sound like saucisse. They’re all phonetic, but you do have to know some Vietnamese pronunciation rules..
Thank you so much for your reminders on Twitter! I’m jealous of your time in Vietnam. I hear good things. I think it would have taken me a while to figure out that “xuc xich” translates to saucisse!
Happy to have found your #AllAboutFrance linkup – enough to fulfill this Francophile’s every fantasy! Cheers from Copenhagen, Erin
It really does feel like Brexit all over again… I say it’s best to just thing of nice things and far-flung places as there’s nothing we can do about it… thanks for hosting!
Thanks for the opportunity to take part and for hosting #AllAboutFrance again. It’s great to read other people’s posts – so varied and wonderful photos. Just one point – I have trouble commenting where blogs use Disqus since the verification email never comes through so I can’t actually get as far as leaving a comment. Not for want of trying. Anyway, a great variety of posts as ever, and I’ve got round about half this time. Will come back for more tomorrow.
Bonjour! Glad you had a great break in Vietnam. Looking forward to discovering some new posts.
Cheers to another great linky. Thank you for hosting!
Thanks for hosting Phoebe, look forward to reading all about Vietnam!
I love the French influence on the Vietnamese language although I initially read the train station sigh as “Gardening” – you can see what my interests in life include!
Thanks for hosting #AllAboutFrance again. I know how much work it involves but I do love the fact I can read some of my favourite blogs about France all in one place. Keep up the good work!