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[QUOTE="JabbaPapa, post: 798452, member: 195"] Well, there are degrees to everything, of course -- though to suggest that to start closer to Santiago than SJPP is somehow "cheating" is frankly to just completely misunderstand the Camino, and should be not just ignored but openly denied. As for taking a bus or taxi, usually the only people being "cheated" here IMO are the ones doing so, always with the exception of a medical condition or crisis or some other emergency need -- because they end up cheating themselves of the full experience, including the difficult or so-called "boring" bits, and so thereby diminish their own experience of the Camino. Plus they end up "splitting" the Way, and because of this it turns it that much into more hiking holiday, less pilgrimage. And I think it will even devalue the more beautiful sections, by way of less contrast from skipping the less beautiful ones. Having said that, there are extremes -- there are always a few people trying to benefit from the albergues & refugios network whilst in fact not actually hiking or biking, but doing it all by motor transport. This is certainly to cheat as such. [/QUOTE]
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