{"id":19697,"date":"2026-01-13T11:30:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T19:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/?p=19697"},"modified":"2026-01-13T11:30:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T19:30:36","slug":"camino-photo-of-the-day-the-bridge-of-respite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/camino-photo-of-the-day-the-bridge-of-respite\/","title":{"rendered":"Camino Photo of the Day: the Bridge of Respite"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I<\/span> caught up with Anne at a little stone bridge over a creek. She was putting her shoes on, having sat on a convenient stone and soaking her feet for a bit in the water. This seemed like a capital idea, and I took her spot as she vacated it. The water was cold! But it was like a tonic to my feet. I finished a sonnetina I had been noodling with all morning while sitting there. As I was putting my shoes back on, Bruno walked up, and I turned the spot over to him.<\/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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