I love walking around my locale as I’ve written about before in my car-free-dom, but inevitably you do go through shoes. In the last post I wrote about sore feet, so in this post I am continuing on a similar path (excuse the pun!).

I seem to wear out shoes quite quickly. It is annoying, isn’t it? You find that ultimate comfy pair of shoes that you can trudge around in for hours day-after-day, then, who would have thought it, they are too worn out to continue!

Of course looking after your shoes is important with cleaning, polishing etc and extends their life, but even so they do still wear out.

I have taken distressed pairs of shoes to be mended, mainly the soles replaced when they can be, and that of course keeps them going a while longer. However, I have not found a solution to comfy shoes that go on for ages-and-ages.

The combination of a shoe that is comfy, waterproof and hardwearing I have found to be elusive. And, most annoyingly, when you do occasionally find that ultimate shoe following the years of them proving themselves, it is often impossible to find the same ones again.

So car-free-dom, as we know, does have its conundrums. Finding a reliable comfy shoes that lasts is one of them, but for being car-free it does seems a worthwhile challenge to grapple with.