these boots weren't made for walkin...

so, feet and their appropriate coverings differ depending on where you reside. if you live in hawaii your standard flipflops will suffice, in russia a good pair of boots is a smart investment, and out to a club for a few hours cute heels will do... perhaps you might assume that we walk a lot here in europe, none of this straight from automobile to building business. and i was already a shoe weakling back home. i enjoy being comfortable. i couldn't do heels for very long before i wanted to throw them across the room. here, you could easily be out all day and comfort is key, thereby rendering many of my cute shoes useless... apparantly i do not have said appropriate coverings. case in point: i went to a street fair a few weeks ago and bore a few holes into my heels from the shoes i was wearing. awesome. these weren't your usual, "oh, poor baby" blisters. literally, holes and my heels are just now healing about one month later. so i walked around with bloody heels all over munich because i wore straight through several "plasters" as the brits refer to them (better known as bandaids). here is the culprit and the proof: (keeping in mind that this does not even look bad, i am slightly upset that you aren't getting the whole picture here)



second case in point: you take your shoes off when you go to someone's house here, so i forget and love to wear my favorite all-occasion shoes which stink to high heaven - it is embarrasing people - and i have to ask the host/ess if i can wash my feet in their tub everywhere i go when i arrive at their house. it's either that or evacuate the room... maybe one day i will remember that they don't do things the way we do them in the states...