Le mot du jour : “Faire le pont”
“Faire le pont” (translation : “to make the bridge”) is, I think, a typically French concept about how to make good use of your bank holidays. Let me explain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In France there is a fair number of public holidays, particularly in May, where you have : 1st of May (Labour Day), 8th of May (end of Second World War) and, very importantly the catholic festival of “Ascension”, which is always on a Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So when one of these days fall on a Thursday or a Tuesday, people usually “font le pont” (make the bridge) : they take a day off work on the Monday or the Friday to link the public holiday with their weekend, hence the bridge concept.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is very common practice, and “le pont de l’Ascension” is completely part of the language in French, for example.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So if people ask you : “Tu fais le pont cette ann\u00e9e ?” (Do you make the bridge this year?), they are not asking you if you are working hard as a construction worker but if you are thinking of taking a day off \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n\n\n\n Le mot du jour : “Faire le pont”“Faire le pont” (translation : “to make the bridge”) is, I think, a typically French concept about how to make good use of your bank holidays. Let me explain. In France there is a fair number of public holidays, particularly in May, where you have : 1st of … <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"