{"id":19790,"date":"2026-02-12T11:55:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T19:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/?p=19790"},"modified":"2026-02-12T11:55:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T19:55:28","slug":"camino-photo-of-the-day-about-those-alleys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/camino-photo-of-the-day-about-those-alleys\/","title":{"rendered":"Camino Photo of the Day: About those Alleys…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

W<\/span>hen I was growing up in Chicago, we would call these “gangways”. This is your typical alley in the old Medieval part of Cahors. Needless to say, they don’t show up on Google street view, but if you’re walking, they’re very handy to cut through the long, narrow blocks. And as I said the other day<\/a>, the narrower alleyways are entirely shaded except at the height of the sun. A useful thing in a heatwave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Date: <\/strong>04 September 2023
Place:<\/strong> Cahors, 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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When I was growing up in Chicago, we would call these “gangways”. This is your typical alley in the old Medieval part of Cahors. Needless to say, they don’t show up on Google street view, but if you’re walking, they’re very handy to cut through the long, narrow blocks. And as I said the other day, the narrower alleyways are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[38,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19790","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\/19790","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=19790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19792,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19790\/revisions\/19792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}