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...
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