{"id":19481,"date":"2025-11-25T16:14:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T00:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/?p=19481"},"modified":"2025-11-25T16:14:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T00:14:11","slug":"camino-photo-of-the-day-bruno-on-the-balcony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/camino-photo-of-the-day-bruno-on-the-balcony\/","title":{"rendered":"Camino Photo of the Day: Bruno on the Balcony"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">E<\/span>ventually, Bruno, \u00c1vila, Valentina, and Paul\u2014my roommates from last night\u2014finally arrived in Rocamadour. It was a short day, and they decided to leave late and dawdle. I might have done the same, but for the heat wave affecting France. From experience, I know how badly I do in the full heat of the day, so I left at my normal dawn-ish time and arrived very early. Anyway, here&#8217;s a photo of Bruno standing on the balcony overlooking the little plaza that contains the entrances to the various churches, chapels, and the basilica.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/53332937668_0fbba79114_o-scaled.jpg?fit=1920%2C2560&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/53332937668_0fbba79114_o-scaled.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/53332937668_0fbba79114_o-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/53332937668_0fbba79114_o-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/53332937668_0fbba79114_o-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/53332937668_0fbba79114_o-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/53332937668_0fbba79114_o-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Date: <\/strong>01 September 2023 <br><strong>Place:<\/strong> Rocamadour, Lot D\u00e9partement, Region of Occitanie, France<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Maps!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The site I&#8217;ve been using for my daily maps, <a href=\"http:\/\/Gronze.com\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"Gronze.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gronze.com<\/a>, while otherwise great, unfortunately doesn&#8217;t have maps for this variant. So here&#8217;s a map from my book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/practical-pilgrimage-now-available\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/practical-pilgrimage-now-available\/\"><em>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<figure class=\"is-style-default wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2122\" height=\"1490\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/VP3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18928\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/VP3.jpg 2122w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/VP3-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/VP3-1024x719.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/VP3-150x105.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/VP3-768x539.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/VP3-1536x1079.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/VP3-2048x1438.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2122px) 100vw, 2122px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"is-style-default wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1092\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/VP-arrow-14-Lacapelle-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18931\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/VP-arrow-14-Lacapelle-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/VP-arrow-14-Lacapelle-300x128.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/VP-arrow-14-Lacapelle-1024x437.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/VP-arrow-14-Lacapelle-150x64.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/VP-arrow-14-Lacapelle-768x328.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/VP-arrow-14-Lacapelle-1536x655.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/VP-arrow-14-Lacapelle-2048x873.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eventually, Bruno, \u00c1vila, Valentina, and Paul\u2014my roommates from last night\u2014finally arrived in Rocamadour. It was a short day, and they decided to leave late and dawdle. I might have done the same, but for the heat wave affecting France. From experience, I know how badly I do in the full heat of the day, so I left at my normal [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[38,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photo-of-the-day-2023","category-via-podiensis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19483,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19481\/revisions\/19483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}