We’re
out to upset the fashionistas at London Fashion Week again… by blogging about
SENSIBLE SHOES!
Part
12 of our series on great shoes for walking tours sees Dr Fiona Haughey weigh
in with tips for good and SAFE shoes for her Beachcombing Walks. She’s looking
after your best interests here. And that’s just the way we roll, here at The
D.C. Over to the good Doctor…
This
isn't a plug for a particular make of footgear but rather a particular
type! On the LW programme it talks about sensible shoes for the
beachcombing walks but people do seem to get confused. They either turn up in
jelly shoes/flipflops/crocs (the thinking apparently is that when their feet
get muddy, it is easier to clean then if they are in such footgear) or heavy
wellies.
Now
I totally understand the wellies, but the Thames foreshore is filled with
glass/metals and seriously uneven surfaces (cobbles/bricks/wooden structural
remains) and so you do need to ideally wear something that covers and protects
your foot.
The
stretch of river we go down on rarely has any sort of mud. There is
periodically a thin layer of silt over a small part of that site and/or on a
few of the steps we go down. This silt is literally paper-thin and presents no
hassle or barrier to walking across it. I wear either trainers or boots
and these are both fine. The really heavy Thames mud can be very
dangerous but I don't ever take people onto sites with that particular
hazard!
Slainte
Fiona
Dr
Fiona Haughey
Archaeologist
& Archaeological Illustrator
Director
Archaeology on the Thames Project
Fiona H.
Fiona H. conducts our Thames beachcombing walks.
An Inter-tidal Aracheologist (and Archaeological illustrator), she's a leading
authority on the Thames foreshore. (She's also excavated in many near Eastern
and central European countries. Given papers all over the world...well, you get
the idea.) And she's a Super Mum - six children! In her "spare" time
she spins.
POST UPDATED 17/3/16
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