Charlie: I think we mentioned it in the blog and careful readers of the tracks will have noticed that we took the city bus out of Pamplona to Cizur Menor and joined the Camino there.
We had walked through Pamplona on the way in and it was not that pleasant. And Wynette was having foot problems and this took three miles off the day’s walk. All good reasons but every pilgrim feels bad about taking the bus for any part of the Camino.
Some of the books and blogs talk about the idea of who is a “true pilgrim”. The answer sometimes is that anyone who does less than you is not a true pilgrim. Like the people on packaged tours, or the people on bikes, or the people who take buses, or the people who don’t stay in albergues, or the people who don’t wear a heavy cross, etc.
This all gets back to why you are walking the Camino in the first place. A question that maybe is not so easy to answer.
