Quimper Saturday

Dreary and wet.
Quimper is the main city in this sub region of Brittany. We caught a train . The main attraction for us was the church, reputedly the second largest in Brittany.

We wandered around for quite a while looking at the many stained glass windows, different styles, modern altar, and one of its main drawcards, it's bent nave. All the while our ears were assaulted by someone playing the organ in bits and pieces, i.e for 30 secs, then a break for a few minutes, then another 45sec etc, but with no pattern. I am not sure if 'playing' is the right word. The notes were very discordant and very loud. Maybe the organist was practising some pieces out of a bigger work.

The outside was quite impressive. Lots of twiddly bits that I quite liked and double flying buttresses.

Then we went to a museum, again with some interesting prehistoric stuff, but the main attractions for me were the traditional costumes, so intricate .

We were running late for the train we wanted to catch and the queue for the person in the ticket dispensing room was too long so I tried with no success to fathom out how to use the ticket dispensing machine. A delightful about 16yr old came along and showed me how. We caught our train.