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My Boots

I love my boots - they are wonderful, wonderful things that protect my feet, that have taken me 500miles across Spain, carried me across the border from France. I wore them at work before I went and I wore them as I walked around my town and when I visited places here. in the nearly year since then I've worn them almost every time that I have left the house and soon they will complete one more Camino with me from Porto to Santiago and then I'll have to look for new boots and I'll feel sad that day but also excited for where those boots will take me.

My boots always seem to be made for walking and that's just what they do, for one of these days my boots will walk all over Spain (again)





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  1. Unknown29 June 2014 at 18:15

    Rachel: What brand and style did you use?

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    1. thomr30 June 2014 at 16:22

      Dennard, I wear brasher boots model SMU SCIROCCO. I liked the first pair of these so much that I bought the same model again! I have been told that brasher's standards have slipped recently but haven't seen any evidence of this (the pair in this post have done me 1000km just on the camino as well as being worn about every day). The boots are not leather and are breathable and waterproof. Hope this helps you!

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