Bonjour les Amis et les Amies!
I'm back from a wonderful meet-up with my father and sisters. While this column will resume in one week, I wanted to check in briefly and see how everyone is doing. Our thoughts and prayers are with those affected by the hurricane in Florida and beyond. Please stay safe.
In moments like these, we often feel a mixture of emotions—both the need to pause and reflect, and the pull to return to daily routines. Speaking of transitions, it brings us to today's mot du jour. While we’ve encountered the word dépaysement in this journal before, today we explore another meaning of this versatile noun: the sense of needing a vacation from a vacation. Dépaysement literally means a feeling of disorientation or being out of one's usual environment, but it can also imply the mental exhaustion or disconnection one feels after being in a completely different setting, like a vacation.
Dépaysement evokes a mix of refreshment and fatigue, the sense of returning home yet still feeling out of place or needing more time to adjust. I admit, after being on a boat for seven days, things are feeling wobbly, and this, coupled with a recent health issue, means I am going to take it easy for the rest of the week.
With this, I leave you with a few photos from the tail end of our cruise, taken in Ajaccio. À bientôt for a recap of our family reunion at sea… Bye just now and take good care!
Amicalement,
Kristi
FRENCH VOCABULARY
les Amis et les Amies = friends (masculine and feminine)
le mot du jour = word of the day
le dépaysement = disorientation / feeling of being out of place
À bientôt = see you soon
Amicalement = warmly / best wishes
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thanks for the update – missed your comments on life etc. Rest.
Welcome home,notre chere Kristi!
You and your always beautiful words were missed and now anticipated again with open arms!
I have found that back to the usual stuff after a mindset of FUN(!) can be something of a letdown,especially combined with health issues besides.Please rest and pamper yourself.Needless to say(!) you deserve it!!
Gorgeous pictures and wonderful vocabulary!! Thank you!!
Arms tight around you all.
Blessings always.
Love
Natalia
Thank you, cheers Natalia and Nancy, for your warm welcome back and for the hugs 🩷. Wishing everyone a lovely weekend.
Happy to have you back & I hope your time together was a delight. It is always nice to travel, especially to somewhere new. When we are on the road, we try to build in a vacation day from our vacation. During our trips, we have busy days and need to just breathe and put nothing on the agenda. Your word, depaysement, is a perfect description. I am not familiar with it and didn’t know it existed. Thank you for sharing it and building my vocabulary.
Your photos are beautiful, as always. You do have such a great eye for a scene. I am sorry you have not been feeling well and hope you can relax and rest up this week and savor the memories you made with your family. Take care of yourself. We all treasure you and the delight you bring to us.
I hope all health issues will be resolved and as for today’s word, I often have it going from France to Italy and back….but always interesting. Mostly it’s from coping with how to pack for weather that no one can predict lately, haha.
Thank you, chère Jo-Anne! 💗
I always say that the best part of a vacation is coming home….