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Mansilla de la Mulas to León: why bother?
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[QUOTE="David Tallan, post: 1146612, member: 31995"] To try and answer your question "why bother walking into Leon" and not be judgemental. I'll start by saying that I am not one to say you gave to walk every step to undertake a Camino or be a pilgrim. My first Camino I certainly did not walk every step. For many years I felt it was less of a pilgrimage. But when I did actually walk a complete Camino and looked back on my first Camino, re-reading my diaries, it immediately became clear that the first was every bit as much a pilgrimage and Camino as the second. So I'm not going to judge you and call you less of a pilgrim if you take a bus. That said, I think those who talk about the first view of the town and cathedral and walking to it. I also think there is something about travelling at a human pace and measuring out a country with our footsteps, all of it, the rural and urban, forest and farmland, beautiful and ugly that is lost when we speed by portions. There was a powerful feeling of change when I took the bus from Finisterre back to Santiago of moving from one mode of travel and being back to another that I think would have been much less impact full had I been won't to take buses throughout the Camino (and that I didnt have at the end of my first Camino - there was certainly a feeling of completion and change, but it was different). My 2 cents, for what it's worth. [/QUOTE]
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