{"id":19836,"date":"2026-02-26T09:28:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T17:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/?p=19836"},"modified":"2026-02-26T09:28:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T17:28:34","slug":"camino-photo-of-the-day-walking-the-devils-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/camino-photo-of-the-day-walking-the-devils-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Camino Photo of the Day: Walking the Devil&#8217;s Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">A<\/span>s the pilgrim walks the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/camino-photo-of-the-day-the-devils-bridge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pont Valentr\u00e9<\/a> over the River Lot, he can&#8217;t help but notice that there&#8217;s a cliff on the other side of the river. Once, long ago, there was a tower built into the cliffside, and one would enter it and climb the interior steps to the top of the cliff. That medieval tower is long gone, and instead we have a steep, hundred-meter scramble up the cliff face on something only vaguely resembling a path. Fun! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1911\" height=\"2560\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/53332625681_68cc971520_4k-copy-scaled.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19837\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/53332625681_68cc971520_4k-copy-scaled.png 1911w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/53332625681_68cc971520_4k-copy-224x300.png 224w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/53332625681_68cc971520_4k-copy-765x1024.png 765w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/53332625681_68cc971520_4k-copy-112x150.png 112w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/53332625681_68cc971520_4k-copy-768x1029.png 768w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/53332625681_68cc971520_4k-copy-1147x1536.png 1147w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/53332625681_68cc971520_4k-copy-1529x2048.png 1529w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1911px) 100vw, 1911px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Date: <\/strong>05 September 2023 <br><strong>Place:<\/strong> leaving Cahors, 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<figure class=\"is-style-default wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"965\" height=\"678\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/VP-20.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19830\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/VP-20.png 965w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/VP-20-300x211.png 300w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/VP-20-150x105.png 150w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/VP-20-768x540.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 965px) 100vw, 965px\" \/><\/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\/2026\/02\/VP-arrow-20-Lascarbanes-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19826\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/VP-arrow-20-Lascarbanes-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/VP-arrow-20-Lascarbanes-300x128.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/VP-arrow-20-Lascarbanes-1024x437.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/VP-arrow-20-Lascarbanes-150x64.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/VP-arrow-20-Lascarbanes-768x328.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/VP-arrow-20-Lascarbanes-1536x655.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/VP-arrow-20-Lascarbanes-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>As the pilgrim walks the Pont Valentr\u00e9 over the River Lot, he can&#8217;t help but notice that there&#8217;s a cliff on the other side of the river. Once, long ago, there was a tower built into the cliffside, and one would enter it and climb the interior steps to the top of the cliff. That medieval tower is long gone, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[38,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19836","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\/19836","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=19836"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19839,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19836\/revisions\/19839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}