If the shoe fits, goddamn-it., buy ten pairs!!

Another thing on the list to pack: heels. And before you silently gasp ‘Connie, WITHOUT HEELS??’, technically, I DID pack some, but in a separate box which was supposed to be sent out ASAP. Anyway, needless to say, no box, no shoes. I thought, 'I'll be looking after kids all the time. I won't need heels the first few weeks.' Erm, might want to re-think that one then!! 

So today was yet ANOTHER quest to find some shoes. This time I needed high heels for a party on Saturday night. I arrived to Chatelet Station and after wandering all over the metro for what seemed like hours (I had to walk across from Chatelet-Les Halles to Chatelet, all underground) I finally came ‘up top’ and facing H&M. Now that I’ve found one, they seem to be popping up wherever I go! I walked up and down the main street, going in and out of various shoe shops (there were so many!), and also using my Frommer’s Life-saving Guide to find particular shops. 

It was a rather disappointing shop, and I had so many shop keepers replying ‘WHAT size???’ as if I’d told them my age or bra size. Chill, s’il vous plait – I’m conscious enough about my EU-42 feet without you staring at me in shock and repeating my size out loud several times! (No, of course I’m not a 42 – I was just kidding...!?) All the shops went up to a toe-cramming 41 shoe, so it wasn’t if it was TOTALLY abnormal to take one size up... And after all, Paris Hilton takes a 43/44 EU shoe, so it’s not impossible to find shoes! Then again, she can afford to design her OWN shoes. I’m beginning to think that ‘large’ shoes in Paris are as common as Karl Lagerfeld himself giving out free Chanel handbags on the street! 

Maybe it’s time to get my bank card out and invest in another pair of Louboutins? Paris IS the birth place of Louboutin shoes, and at least I know they fit!! On second thoughts, maybe the rest of my family will disown me if I go ahead and buy a pair, especially as it’s only my second week in Paris... Maybe I give the ‘Rock-Chick Look’ a go with a LBD and some boots?

Hmm... I wonder if Paris has a Balmain?!