{"id":19842,"date":"2026-02-27T10:23:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T18:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/?p=19842"},"modified":"2026-02-27T10:23:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T18:23:28","slug":"camino-photo-of-the-day-cahors-from-the-cliff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/camino-photo-of-the-day-cahors-from-the-cliff\/","title":{"rendered":"Camino Photo of the Day: Cahors from the Cliff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">T<\/span>he orange sunrise sky makes it look like the world outside of Cahors is on fire. In the town, we can see the Devil&#8217;s Bridge below us and the cathedral in the distance. It&#8217;s interesting to see the juxtaposition of medieval and 20th-century architecture in the buildings. Scrambling up that cliff was no joke. There were switchback stairs cut into the side of the cliff, and others of concrete where the rock wouldn\u2019t support. Some of these were quite steep. On one section, I was crawling hand over hand, as it was more like a ladder than a staircase.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/53332599586_463ba91694_4k-copy-scaled.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19841\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/53332599586_463ba91694_4k-copy-scaled.png 2560w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/53332599586_463ba91694_4k-copy-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/53332599586_463ba91694_4k-copy-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/53332599586_463ba91694_4k-copy-150x113.png 150w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/53332599586_463ba91694_4k-copy-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/53332599586_463ba91694_4k-copy-1536x1152.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/53332599586_463ba91694_4k-copy-2048x1536.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/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>The orange sunrise sky makes it look like the world outside of Cahors is on fire. In the town, we can see the Devil&#8217;s Bridge below us and the cathedral in the distance. It&#8217;s interesting to see the juxtaposition of medieval and 20th-century architecture in the buildings. Scrambling up that cliff was no joke. There were switchback stairs cut into [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[38,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19842","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\/19842","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=19842"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19844,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19842\/revisions\/19844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}