Port du jour: Quimperlé

Finistère, Brittany, France

Excerpt from Vetted: A winter roadtrip through Finistère

Quimperlé, not to be confused with Quimper, sits along the Laïta River. I stumbled into this spooky grey town on a grey January day, but still found some color and charm. I parked by the Pont Fleuri and then roamed around, finding myself on a Northern French extension of the Camino de Santiago, always marked by scallop shells. A vocal fan of cathedral cloisters, I quickly located the Ancienne Abbatiale de Sainte-Croix, only to find the cloisters closed off.