{"id":42,"date":"2013-03-14T18:04:08","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T18:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ldsit.net\/french\/?page_id=42"},"modified":"2025-09-08T20:03:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T18:03:23","slug":"welcome-bienvenue","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lepontasion.org\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome \/ Bienvenue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Who are we?<\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/lepontasion.org\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Coffee.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-74 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/lepontasion.org\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Coffee.png\" alt=\"Coffee\" width=\"90\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lepontasion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Coffee.png 90w, https:\/\/lepontasion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Coffee-57x300.png 57w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 90px) 100vw, 90px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Le Pont&#8217; (the Bridge) &#8211; Is a non-sectarian organisation to facilitate friendship between the local French community and those English people both living in and visiting the Vendee.\u00a0 This is achieved through social gatherings &#8211; often revolving around eating and drinking.\u00a0 See &#8221;News&#8221; of recent events.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;LE PONT A SION&#8221; meeting room is at la Par\u00e9e Verte Salle n\u00b03 (Chemin des Garennes at St-Hilaire de Riez) and opens on\u00a0 Thursday evenings 18.00 &#8211; 20.00 and Friday mornings, 10.00 &#8211; 12.00.<\/p>\n<p>We invite you and\u00a0 your friends, neighbours, parents\u2026.\u00a0Come and have a cup of tea or coffee and\u00a0exchange ideas, in a convivial atmosphere in either English or French!<\/p>\n<p>We hope to find more in common than separates us.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Qui sommes \u2013 nous\u00a0?<\/strong><\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> Notre association &#8220;Le Pont \u00e0 Sion&#8221; aide les anglophones habitant la r\u00e9gion \u00e0 s&#8217;int\u00e9grer dans la communaut\u00e9 locale et accueille les francophones pour partager, en toute amiti\u00e9, loisirs, coutumes, cultures.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">&#8220;LE PONT A SION&#8221;, se r\u00e9unit \u00e0 la Par\u00e9e Verte, Salle n\u00b03 (Chemin des Garennes \u00e0 St Hilaire de Riez)\u00a0 tous les jeudis soir de 18h \u00e0 20h et les vendredis matin de 10h \u00e0 12h.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Nous vous invitons \u00e0 venir \u00e9changer avec nous des id\u00e9es, des lectures, etc&#8230; dans une atmosph\u00e8re conviviale, autour d&#8217;un th\u00e9 ou d&#8217;un caf\u00e9, en langue anglaise ou fran\u00e7aise. Vos amis, parents, voisins sont les bienvenus. Autant d&#8217;occasions de d\u00e9couvrir nos ressemblances et de mieux comprendre nos diff\u00e9rences.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Are we expensive?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>No. The annual subscription amounts to <strong>20\u00a0 euros<\/strong> from September 1st to August 31st.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>La cotisation est-elle \u00e9lev\u00e9e??<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Non.\u00a0 La cotisation annuelle est fix\u00e9e \u00e0 <strong>20 Euros<\/strong> \u00e0 partir du 1er septembre jusqu&#8217;au 31 ao\u00fbt.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who are we? &#8216;Le Pont&#8217; (the Bridge) &#8211; Is a non-sectarian organisation to facilitate friendship between the local French community and those English people both living in and visiting the Vendee.\u00a0 This is achieved through social gatherings &#8211; often revolving around eating and drinking.\u00a0 See &#8221;News&#8221; of recent events. &#8220;LE PONT A SION&#8221; meeting room [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-42","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lepontasion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lepontasion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lepontasion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lepontasion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lepontasion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/lepontasion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6495,"href":"https:\/\/lepontasion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42\/revisions\/6495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lepontasion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}