Wear Comfortable Walking Shoes

I went to Italy last year, had a great time by the way, but unfortunately I didn't wear comfortable walking shoes and my feet hurt.

We were gone for 3 weeks, staying in 6 cities and hit just about every museum and church we could find (hubby is a museum and art fan).  There were days we walked as much as 12 miles, ouch!!

Take it from me, if you will be doing a lot of walking wear comfortable walking shoes.

Here are the shoes I brought:

Don't get me wrong, I love these shoes and they are comfortable shoes if you walk just a few miles a day, but not for 10 miles a day on concrete and marble surfaces.  

I even broke them in by wearing them on my 2 mile walk that I do every day, and they were great.  The thing that I didn’t realize is that a shoe itself can be comfortable but the bottom of your foot will begin to notice hard surfaces after about 2 miles of walking.

As I approached 3 miles of walking each day my foot began to hurt on the heel and the ball. 

In Europe all streets, museums, churches, everything has concrete, stone or marble surfaces and they get HARD!  It’s not like at home where wood, carpet and dirt hiking trails are the common surface.

So, let me impress upon you, don’t make the mistake I made. Get a comfortable shoe that has a sole that won’t let your foot feel the hardness of the ground surfaces. The sole should be thick, pliable and cushiony.   Keep in mind that even my Dr. Scholl’s insoles didn’t help, that’s how bad these shoes were on my feet.

So this never happens again, I checked with the members of the group we traveled with and here are a few of the shoes they wore and recommend as comfortable walking shoes:

New Balance Walking Shoes

Rockport Walking Shoes

Skechers Shape Up Shoes