Port du jour: Concarneau

Finistère, Brittany, France

Excerpt from Vetted: A winter roadtrip through Finistère

I spent the evenings going for walks between the beaches the speckle the coast. My chambre de bonne was between Plage des Sables Blancs and Plage de Kernous, an idyllic Breton setting for the sunset to beam through the sunlight. When solo, I usually eat dinner out only a few times, preferring to make my own meals with local produce and market fare. This week, salmon was on the menu, alongside beautiful tomatoes and cheeses, and my first taste of caviar.

When it’s cold and raw outside, I always gravitate towards things that that offer a reminder of warmer weather. In the bio market near Concarneau, I found fresh basil whose aroma filled my chambre de bonne with hope. Blinis with crème fraîche and caviar is a quick and easy way to transport to a catamaran on the Mediterranean. A chilly beach walk can always produce some sea glass, or at the very least some scallop shells, for the collection.