In Need Of Boots But Not To Walk All Over Everyone....

Pamplona, Spain
November 6, 2018 4:41am CST
Looking at some really nice boot although a bit too short in the calf or leg for me. A few that are coming up have a kind of hippy style you know from the 1960´s sort of thing. But then they put they have a leather sole which is not so good as they make for a very slippery boot to walk in specially here with the pavements they have. A man was walking over the wooden bridge the other day and he slipped startled me a bit but then I saw he was wearing sports shoes with those very dodgy soles on. He was okay though got up a bit shaken but wood is wood and when its wet it can be very slippery. I was thinking of the song that Nancy Sinatra sang "These Boots Were Made For Walkin". Loved her singing that and what a singer she has been. That then made me think its maybe a big day for the U.S. with the voting that will be going on later on and I am seven hours more or less in front of that but still thinking of them and wishing the best for everyone who does go and vote.
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@topffer (42155)
• France
6 Nov 18
I am also looking for a pair of boots for this winter. I bought an expensive Italian pair handmade last year, I was expecting them to last years, and a zipper broke after 4 months. I will buy cheap boots.
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• Pamplona, Spain
6 Nov 18
@topffer Hey, what a coincidence but the boots I bought ages and ages ago were made of Italian leather from the Bull Ring Centre in Birmingham and the zippers never broke at all. I think I will go with the lace up ones but not sure they seem to be awfully tough on sensitive feet. Be careful with the soles though and make sure they are non slip that guy I mentioned came a right cropper I would say so and I sort of ran towards him to see if he was okay but saw the disgruntled look on his face and kept way back. Leave some alone is what I saw so I did.
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• Pamplona, Spain
6 Nov 18
@topffer Did not mean to put the laughing image thing on there sorry about that its not funny when someone falls at al lwhatever age they are. The boots kept me upright in very bad weather. I nearly slipped only one time coming out of a Square as it was treacherous weather and no fresh snow to walk on and the guy coming my way went to reach out to me and said "steady doll steady" and he made me smile and I forgot all about falling. Plastic soles is what that guy had on his sports shoes and they are not very warm for this kind of year and very unkind to feet. I would have gone running to pick you up the same. Perhaps the zippers were English but on the box it said all made in Italy so then I did not doubt it at all very comfy and kept me warm too and I wore them out with so much walking. Hope you find a much better pair tops plastic soles are not good on Spanish pavements or wet woood on bridges. Rubbish you are not aging its the surfaces that get full of residual grease and stuff hope you were not hurt?
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@topffer (42155)
• France
6 Nov 18
@lovinangelsinstead21 I felt down with plastic soles on a bridge a few weeks ago. I was not hurt but a bit wet. I am aging. You were luckier than me with your boots. The zippers were probably English and not Italian.
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@Morleyhunt (21741)
• Canada
6 Nov 18
I need a good tread on my footwear. Last summer I fell several times because my shoes were worn out.
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• Pamplona, Spain
6 Nov 18
@Morleyhunt Are´nt they so hard to find really? I don´t care much for high heeled boots for winter. Glad you found a good pair and hope they keep you warm and cosy and safe while out walking too very important more than just the fashion bit.
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• Pamplona, Spain
6 Nov 18
@Morleyhunt Have been there too and almost slipped because of very dodgy soles on the shoes. Hope you find a great pair too and will be not be that easy to find a good combination as the boots I am seeing don´t seem very soft on the toes at all very tough tops of the boots.
@Morleyhunt (21741)
• Canada
6 Nov 18
@lovinangelsinstead21 last winter I found a good pair of boots. They should be good for at least another couple of winters.
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@marlina (154103)
• Canada
6 Nov 18
It is so difficult to find a good winter pair of boots. Good luck.
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• Pamplona, Spain
6 Nov 18
Thank you I am sure there will a pair out there for me sooner or later I will find them.
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@marlina (154103)
• Canada
4 Feb 19
@lovinangelsinstead21 Did you finally find a good pair of boots?
@LadyDuck (502886)
• Italy
6 Nov 18
I have found a nice pair of leather boots with a non slippery sole, they are warm inside and perfect for Swiss winters.
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@marlina (154103)
• Canada
6 Nov 18
@LadyDuck , So you got some good boots there!
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@marlina (154103)
• Canada
6 Nov 18
a non slippery sole? Really?
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@LadyDuck (502886)
• Italy
6 Nov 18
@marlina The shoe sole is made of leather and the outside doubled with rubber, that is very good. Plastic shoe soles are a mess.
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@JudyEv (382658)
• Rockingham, Australia
6 Nov 18
Some surfaces can be incredibly slippery. I hope you find some nice boots soon. Don't forget to let us all see them when you find some.
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• Pamplona, Spain
6 Nov 18
Will do don´t worry. I wanted to go and run and pick the man up but he sort of gave out that keep away look so I thought okay so I did. Not that I am usually like that. Yep some surfaces are very slippery worse than ice and snow. Specially when they clean the floors here with that stinky sfuff they use and one guy came in through the doorway and skidded right up to our door he could not stop.
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@septabchips (1141)
• Nigeria
6 Nov 18
Good morning. Seems like you have no an to vote!
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• Pamplona, Spain
6 Nov 18
HIya, yes it the U.S. that have their voting day it seems to be the big vote the Nationwide one.
• Nigeria
6 Nov 18
@lovinangelsinstead21 Oh yes. I will try and keep up with the update online.
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• Pamplona, Spain
6 Nov 18
@septabchips I will follow it a bit later on and see how it all goes.
@JESSY3236 (22287)
• United States
6 Nov 18
I always look at the soles of shoes before buying. If they don't have good traction, I don't get them.
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• Pamplona, Spain
7 Nov 18
@JESSY3236 Good for you and I always do that too. I have not seen any boots I like yet and its not easy to have a good choice here either. Hope you find some nice and good ones. I am looking to get two pairs if I can one suede and the other soft stuff as well as a lot of the boots now are not real leather like they were before.
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@cindiowens (5120)
• North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
7 Nov 18
I am not much on shoes. I wear them when I have to. But I am very much a hippie! I have always liked that song too.
@acelawrites (19272)
• Philippines
9 Nov 18
It is good to be careful; so hard when you accidentally slipped.
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• Pamplona, Spain
9 Nov 18
Not come across any good boots yet will take a few more days of going further out into town to be able to find some. Yes we have to be very careful always.
@ilocosboy (45155)
• Philippines
7 Nov 18
I'm going to check that song.
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• Pamplona, Spain
7 Nov 18
Nancy Sinatra is not a Singer that is much known here as I might have said before somewhere and her Dad of course known all over this Country.
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