Big shoes

Having lived in Spain since 1994, I still find it incredible that it´s virtually impossible to buy a pair of women´s shoes in a size 8. Ok it may not be the average shoe size but neither is it so unusual - particularly among ex-pats who tend to be a big larger in general to the locals. I blame my mother - she always had big ´plates of meat´ as my dad so charmingly puts it, and she would have been as frustrated as I am trying to buy shoes in Spain. In fact ´big foot´ shoe shop may be a great business idea. I normally have to troop off to Gib to buy shoes at Marks and Spencer´s or wait until I go back to the UK and stock up. If you do manage to find the odd pair of ladies shoes on the Costa del Sol, they are either so wide, that they resemble a circus freak´s footware, or they are designed with older grannies in mind who want some comfortable loafers to shuffle round town in. Come on shoe shops - start to stock something trendy, modern and stylish in a size 8. It shouldn´t be too difficult as most most of the upmarket (and not so upmarket) shoe shops in the UK, Scandinavia and Germany all stock larger sizes. Spain is renowned for its fine leather goods and shoes - it´s time to look after us big foots, and to start stocking them in all sizes.