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ARA Shoes - Great for Walking

By traveltripz on Jul 27, 2007 in General, Shopping, Travel Gear

When we where in Florence a couple of years ago, we purchase some great walking sandals. We had done so much walking around Europe in joggers that our feet were ready to drop off.

ARA sandals are the most comfortable shoes we have ever worn. So naturally when they eventually wore out we set off to buy some more. Easier said than done. They are made in Germany and we were unable to find local stockists when we were first looking for them. So we thought we would buy some when we went to the US for the Affiliate Summit.

Oh my god, we couldn’t find any in New York, the one store that was supposed to stock them didn’t have any, and the only other store we could find was in Canada.

So much to our dismay we returned home ARA sandal-less.

This is no good I said to Paula, surely someone in Australia must stock these shoes. So onto the internet to the ARA German site which I then translated into English with my new found Google translation tool, and sure enough there was a contact for Australia.

So I emailed the contact and a very nice gentleman responded with a whole list of addresses in Australia and New Zealand. Which is very helpful because I will be going to NZ in September with my hubby on a family visit.

So I contacted a store in Sydney and the stocks that we are after haven’t arrived yet, they are expected next week. So this will mean a trip to Sydney, Oh dear, what a shame.

The sandals we purchased “Korfu” are very similar to these

However there are lots of great styles available.

So Paula has been checking out accomodation at our favourite Hotel and we will be off to stay at Star City for the night when we go to pick up the shoes. We are hoping to take Demelza, my granddaughter with us and maybe we will go and see “Priscilla Queen of the Desert” yet again.