This day is mostly about patience. There are hardly any hills, so your legs get an easy day. Your mind needs to get used to the pace of the Landes: almost 19 kilometres of long, straight stretches with very little to catch your attention.
That’s exactly the charm. On the forest tracks the rhythm comes by itself and your thoughts wander where they please. Before you know it, an hour has passed and you’ve seen nothing but pines. That’s fine. After almost five hours you walk into Pissos, with a contented body. Behind you the forest closes up again, trunk after trunk, with low sunlight in between.