Author: Claire
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The Great Shoe Search
A few years ago, I found myself in South Korea with winter approaching and no proper closed shoes. All the women’s closed shoes I could find seemed to be 6-inch heels – not ideal for snowy winter. So, with some trepidation, I did something I’ve never done before and spent a large amount of money…
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Take-off
Early morning airport. It’s still dark when I arrive. Inside the airport is bright and clean and quiet. Too early even for the airport annoncements. Too early. A woman in a brown frilly dress and sparkly high-heel shoes walks by. Her eyes are dead, tired. A young couple struggles past – she pushing a loaded…
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“Yes, our African sky gives on the same sense of perfect freedom and wild exhilaration; sometimes on fees as though, for no reason that could be given, one were almost in an ecstacy of happiness when one goes out alone… Here one is never alone.” Olive Schreiner writing from London, 1879