Camino Photo of the Day: Do You Know the Way to Cahors?

The Way from Vers to Cahors was excruciating. It’s not that it wasn’t beautiful, because it surely was. No, the issue was that Cahors is a major city, and it’s surrounded by a spaghetti of hiking trails wending their way through the surrounding hills. The Camino route wound its way through these. At one point, it had taken me something like two hours to reduce the distance to Cahors by 4km. By way of contrast, I usually walk 5km an hour on flat ground. By the time I got to this sign, I was frustrated enough that I just sat down and ate a couple of cookies.

Date: 04 September 2023
Place: between Vers and Cahors, Lot Département, Region of Occitanie, France

Maps!

The site I’ve been using for my daily maps, Gronze.com, while otherwise great, unfortunately doesn’t have maps for this variant. So here’s a map from my book Practical Pilgrimage showing the entirety of the three main variants and larger sub-variants. I walked the GR6 from Figeac to Rocamadour and the GR46 on to Cahors.