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If you have to trim a week off the Camino from St Jean to Santiago ... make it the meseta (hop onto a train).
The meseta has it's good parts, but sections of walking beside a busy highway for hours are Not for me.
Its about 170kms, which for me, would have been about seven days walking, however, in the interest of time, I rented a bike to cross it which cut timing down to just over two days. It was a great way to see the meseta, although many will say...
You can more than likely do that trek in 42 days, however when I did the Camino, I cycled the meseta to save time. A lot of people think that’s sacrilegious, but it was necessary for me at the time, and I do plan to go back, maybe just to walk...
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