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Are you comfortable with heels or flats?

September 22, 2008

Within city centers, most of the streets in Europe are paved with cobblestones, thus if you’re a tourist and would like to do a lot of sightseeing, better not wear those high heels! Here’s one of those cobbled streets in Kutna Hora, another tourist destination in Czech Republic and just few hours trip from Prague.

Now, you wouldn’t want your tiny stiletto heels to be stuck in between the stones, yeah? That’s why it really amazed me to see some lady tourists in their high heeled shoes while we were at the Strahov monastery in Prague. Yup…they were in a group tour and I saw them walking comfortably even in stilettos.

Hmmm…this brings to mind a lady friend, a civil engineer at that, who told me she feels comfortable with heels rather than flats. In fact, she wants her shoes to have at least few inches of heels even when she goes to the construction site. She said her feet feels tired if she’s wearing flats.

Me? I opt for flats or maybe an inch of heel would do, such as those Dansko low-heeled sandals. Maybe because I’m flat-footed…and just few minutes of walking in heels can make my feet cry for help.

How about you? Which type of shoe are you comfortable with?

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