Camino Photo of the Day: Where I Got My Water

When I left Rocamadour on this morning, I had forgotten to top off my water bottles. This is a rookie mistake. A violation of rule seven of my “practical rules for the Camino”. To be clear, it’s not as though I had no water. One bottle was half full, and the other had a little bit in it as well. But this was clearly not optimal for a long stage with little support. By the time I finally topped off both bottles here, from a hand pump in the churchyard in the little village of Couzou, both bottles were empty. The water was cold and delicious. After drinking some and filling my bottles, I went into the church to pray an act of thanksgiving.

Date: 02 September 2023
Place: Couzou, between Rocamadour and Labastide-Murat, 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.