I (already famous) move to Brussels has been occupying most of my time and my mental availability. I've been packing up my stuff and moving it back to my Mom's house for safe-keeping, I've been moving out furniture around and all sorts of thinngs. And I've thinking what to take with me and what to leave behind. It's a very harduous task, this moving business.
So, I have to travel light and practical. Things I can buy in Brussels I will not take with me - but I have to think practical.
What will my life be like in my new home? I'll have to walk a lot, that's for sure - my car will stay behind. And I'll have to walk a lot because I'll be searching for a flat to live in.
I therefore decided that I needed a pair of sturdy, strong and reliable boots. What comes to mind is "the" boot, the daddy of all boots - the Timberland Yellow Boot. It costs 192 EUR in Portugal. It's expensive. Very... But I'll be buying a garantee and the promisse that it will last through years of abuse.
It rains a lot in Brussels. In the Winter it snows a lot, I reckon. So I thiught that these might be ideal. I tried a pair today at a Timberland dealer and I was impressed. I was expencting weight to accompany that sturdy look - they felt rather light and nimble. And I compared them to a pair of trecking shoes I tried on earlier at the same shop. They felt a lot heavier... Strange. I figured that I might as well buy the boots. And they looked... in place on my feet. The other shoes looked good but out of place. I shave with a straight razor, I have a mustache... gore-tex and man-made fibers just don't cut it. Yellow it is!
Why this long post, you may ask? Is Timberland paying this guy to praise their products? No, they're not! I was just wondering that, among all these manly-men there has to be someone that has one of these boots. I figured that someone might:
a) talk me out of buying them - "they're ghastly and they won't last weeks"
b) tell me that they are good value for money - "I've had mine for 134 years and they still are good to go."
What do you think?