{"id":19650,"date":"2026-01-06T09:49:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T17:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/?p=19650"},"modified":"2026-01-06T09:49:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T17:49:55","slug":"camino-photo-of-the-day-into-the-woods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/camino-photo-of-the-day-into-the-woods\/","title":{"rendered":"Camino Photo of the Day: Into the Woods"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

S<\/span>ometimes it’s roadwalking, and sometimes it’s practically bushwhacking. The walking surfaces of the Via Podiensis in France are perhaps even more varied than those of the Camino Franc\u00e9s in Spain.\u00a0On this particular day, there were still segments of roadwalking \u2013 I feel like it wouldn\u2019t be the Camino in France without them \u2013 but they were much reduced compared to previous days. In fact, it seemed that rather than trying to cover any great distance, the road segments were merely there to get you to the next proper path. And thank the Lord for the signage, because some of those paths were fairly well hidden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Date: <\/strong>03 September 2023
Place:<\/strong> between Labastide-Murat and Vers, 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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Sometimes it’s roadwalking, and sometimes it’s practically bushwhacking. The walking surfaces of the Via Podiensis in France are perhaps even more varied than those of the Camino Franc\u00e9s in Spain.\u00a0On this particular day, there were still segments of roadwalking \u2013 I feel like it wouldn\u2019t be the Camino in France without them \u2013 but they were much reduced compared to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[38,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19650","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\/19650","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=19650"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19653,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19650\/revisions\/19653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}