These boots are made for walking, the streets of Italy that is. I was concerned with my recent trip to Italy because I knew that cities in Italy are walking cities. While I normally love walking a city, my concern was that this summer I broke my big toe and have been slowly making my way into shoes. I have tennis shoes (for working out only) and high heels. So, I purchased a pair of booties just prior to my departure and hoped they would support me through my days in Rome, the Tuscany Region and Venice. You see, in Italy you don't see many tennis shoes. It's all about fashion. The average person is fashionable but their old sidewalks and uneven pavement are murder on heels. Booties don't fail me now.

I actually wore my booties on the plane. They have one zipper at the heel which makes them easy to take off and put back on. They have a one inch heel and are of the softest leather. Boy, were they comfortable even after my feet swelled a bit. Can't seem to lay off the wine!

My trip to Italy started on Friday 12th with a flight at 10:30 am CST. We had a plane change in Washington DC before landing at JFK in New York. There we had a layover for a few hours. Since my father traveled to South America for work so many times that he accumulated more than 2 million miles, just with American Airlines, he's now permanently Platinum and therefore we could spend the layover in the Admirals Club. It was a nice quiet place to have to wait for our flight to Rome. Normally I fly with Southwest because I typically travel domestically. After my flight win Finnair last year I was expecting...

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