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About Shoes and Tans

Today is one of these days. The sun is shining and you can sense that summer isn’t too far away. My appartment has these really big windows so that you can sit down on the window sills and chill in the sun. Which is what I planned to do. So I seized the time with a bottle of cold beer and have been working on my first tan of the year ever since.

I remind myself of these prostitutes that sit in their windows in some German cities or in Amsterdam waiting for customers. Of course I am far from being a prostitute just to clear that up. Last Saturday I bought a few pieces of the new Madonna H&M collection part of which I am presenting the passers-by presently.

Normally I don’t leave that much money at H&M because the quality sucks whenever I buy something and I’m upset afterwards but these clothes are really nice and one is even out of 100 percent cashmere. I’m also listening to the new song of Snow Patrol called “Shut your Eyes” which is totally cool. I like it even more than the previous Greys song “Chasing Cars”. My mistake is that I listen to songs I like over and over again until I can’t hear them anymore which is what is about to happen with this song. I’ve listened to it like for the 89th time.

Quite a few days have passed since our trip to London. First of all - although I already am lucky to be living in a beautiful city London was even more overwhelming. We didn’t have enough time to visit all the standard sites so we walked around Piccadilly Circus and Regent Street and eventually ended up at Harrods - which is where I want to live for the rest of my life. It is like paradise and so exquisite that you will never forget your visit and will be coming back for more. The decorations and the design are amazing. The service is perfect and the whole atmosphere is somewhat enchanting.  All the items are displayed with so much love for the detail that you don’t know what to look at first. The next time I’m in London I will definitely stay in the store all day and then I will be wandering the streets which is what you should be doing when you visit a new city.

Now to the bad but for me very typical part: During my stay at Harrods I was even able to find a pair of boots which was affordable and absolutely beautiful. I was so happy, bought them and put them in my father’s suitcase. Late in the evening when we had arrived back home totally exhausted and had survived the return flight I tried on my boots. I wondered whether one of my feet had swollen from all the walking that day or what other reason there could be that one boot was way tighter than the other.

Then I noticed it: the sales assistant had packed the wrong shoes and had given me an odd pair. After talking to quite a few sales people at Harrods the next day I sent my pair of boots back to London and am now more or less patiently waiting for them to send me a new pair of boots. I hope they will! They promised!

Well, at least my boots got the chance to go to Harrods one more time

Tags: H&M Madonna, London, Piccadilly Circus, Snow Patrol, Shut your eyes, Harrods London
life, Music | March 28th, 2007 by admin |

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