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Castelnau and the Pink Bridge

Day four in the Lot: a 77 km loop south from Cahors up Route de la Marchande to Lalbenque and Belfort-du-Quercy, past Flaugnac to the domed church of Castelnau-Montratier, and home at sunset to a Pont Valentré lit pink. Read the ride.

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Castelnau and the Pink Bridge

Looking through the stone archway of the Pont Valentré tower in Cahors, with the far tower framed at the end of the bridge.

Under the Pont Valentré’s middle tower

The Fontaine des Chartreux

The bike leaning on a riverside wall with the Pont Valentré across the Lot behind.

Looking back to the Pont Valentré

A many-arched bridge over the Lot under grey skies in the first kilometre out of Cahors.

A bridge over the Lot in Cahors

The Lot and its bridges from the riverside road just outside Cahors.

The Lot on the way out of Cahors

The cockpit view: Garmin, bars and sky-blue sleeves on a fast stretch of road.

Eyes on the road

An empty road across the farmland of the plateau near Cieurac under a big sky.

Open road near Cieurac

Lalbenque town hall decorated with pink Octobre Rose ribbons, a bronze seated figure on the steps.

Pink ribbons on Lalbenque’s town hall

Heavy grey cloud over ploughed fields beside the road near Montdoumerc.

Showers coming over the fields

A tall Gothic bell tower and stone houses beyond a green field near Montpezat-de-Quercy.

Bell tower near Montpezat-de-Quercy

Rows of vines and a ploughed field below the hilltop village of Flaugnac.

Flaugnac above the vineyards

The domed church of Castelnau-Montratier on its hill above green fields.

First sight of Castelnau-Montratier

The domed white stone Église Saint-Martin in Castelnau-Montratier in low evening sun.

Église Saint-Martin, Castelnau-Montratier

The bike parked on the pavement by the square in Castelnau-Montratier, outside Le 17.

Parked up outside Le 17

A coffee on a tray at the bar of Le 17 on Place Gambetta in Castelnau-Montratier.

Coffee at Le 17, Castelnau-Montratier

My shadow stretched across the gravel of the arcaded square in Castelnau-Montratier.

Long shadows in Castelnau-Montratier

A statue on a tall plinth in Castelnau-Montratier with pink paper hearts around its railings for Octobre Rose.

Pink hearts round the statue

The sun setting low over fields beside a country road on the way home.

Sunset on the ridge

The Pont Valentré in Cahors lit pink for Octobre Rose at dusk and reflected in the Lot.

The Pont Valentré in pink

Castelnau and the Pink Bridge

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