{"id":19368,"date":"2025-10-22T08:44:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T15:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/?p=19368"},"modified":"2025-10-22T08:44:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T15:44:09","slug":"camino-photo-of-the-day-a-horse-of-a-different-colour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/camino-photo-of-the-day-a-horse-of-a-different-colour\/","title":{"rendered":"Camino Photo of the Day: a Horse of a Different Colour"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

O<\/span>n the Camino you see a lot of random art and graffiti, which I often highlight on this blog. There are also many cairns on the route, some for wayfinding, but most often as a personal expression. Sometimes, it’s difficult to tell what’s intentionally art and what isn’t. This horse head is affixed to a stone in the woods, perhaps five kilometers past Gramat on the way to Rocamadour. It’s clearly on purpose, but what does it mean? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Date: <\/strong>01 September 2023
Place:<\/strong> between Gramat and Rocamadour, Lot D\u00e9partement, Region of Occitanie, France<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maps!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The site I’ve been using for my daily maps, Gronze.com<\/a>, while otherwise great, unfortunately doesn’t have maps for this variant. So here’s a map from my book Practical Pilgrimage<\/em><\/a> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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