Your legs will hardly notice this day. Your head will, though. It’s almost completely flat, and that makes the 27-plus kilometres deceptive: you walk and walk, and the landscape barely changes. Halfway through, your mind starts asking how much is still to come.
You leave Orléans and head for the Loire. It’s a day of roads and paths along the river, through villages you can stroll through at an easy pace. Meung-sur-Loire lies along the way and is a logical place for a proper break. Allow around 7 hours for the whole stage and pace yourself. At the end you walk into Beaugency and see the old stone bridge across the Loire. Time to put down your rucksack and sit on a café terrace.