Neil1
15-10-2010, 22:22
I have just finished another week in the woods teaching.
My bergen seems to have hardly been unpacked this year. Its the same old trusty kit that comes out each time (the odd new addition - I made myself a new lightweight ventile smock for the summer this year!), stuff you can rely on, gear that works day in- day out.
For years my mainstay boot was the Miendl Borneo (good, solid, leather lined). If it really warm I switch to something lighter, but most years for three seasons the good old Borneos come out.
Very strangley over the last 18 months (at 45 years of age) my feet have grown a size!!!
So a lot of my footwear has had to be changed, including my Borneos!!! and to replace them would cost £165!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!
So I needed a "stop-gap" boot, something to tide me over until I could get a mortgage to pay for a new set of Miendls.
Enter my good friend Kev at Endicotts - who furnished with a set of the new German Paraboots (much mentioned on the forum already).
For a fraction of the cost, I have a set of boots, that far from being a "stop-gap", have become my favourite (and most used boots) over the last 10 months.
Well made, well padded and comfy too (no problems with wet feet either!
I have also noticed the number of other people I know who are wqearing the same boots, and all swear by them!
I have no connection to the above supplier and I did pay the going rate for them (and would happily have paid double that for the quality of boot I recieved!).
N
My bergen seems to have hardly been unpacked this year. Its the same old trusty kit that comes out each time (the odd new addition - I made myself a new lightweight ventile smock for the summer this year!), stuff you can rely on, gear that works day in- day out.
For years my mainstay boot was the Miendl Borneo (good, solid, leather lined). If it really warm I switch to something lighter, but most years for three seasons the good old Borneos come out.
Very strangley over the last 18 months (at 45 years of age) my feet have grown a size!!!
So a lot of my footwear has had to be changed, including my Borneos!!! and to replace them would cost £165!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!
So I needed a "stop-gap" boot, something to tide me over until I could get a mortgage to pay for a new set of Miendls.
Enter my good friend Kev at Endicotts - who furnished with a set of the new German Paraboots (much mentioned on the forum already).
For a fraction of the cost, I have a set of boots, that far from being a "stop-gap", have become my favourite (and most used boots) over the last 10 months.
Well made, well padded and comfy too (no problems with wet feet either!
I have also noticed the number of other people I know who are wqearing the same boots, and all swear by them!
I have no connection to the above supplier and I did pay the going rate for them (and would happily have paid double that for the quality of boot I recieved!).
N