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IT WAS the friendly woman sitting beside me on the airplane who triggered the question. We’d gotten into conversation about our most memorable trips. Mine, I told her, was undoubtedly the Camino walk to Santiago de Compostela. ‘Oh,’ she retorted; ‘I’ve done that.’ It turned out that, for her, ‘doing that’ meant covering the last 35 miles of the walk with 8 other women in her walking group. It had taken them just 5 days and they’d stayed each night in a comfortable hotel from which their luggage was couriered to their next destination.