I love my Vibram Five Fingers. I rave about them every chance I get, and I love them for running.

What I don’t do, however, is wear them as a general purpose shoe. Until last week that is.

This last week I’ve been in Prague for work, and since my wife & kids are off work & school respectively we decided a road trip was in order - Cumbria to Prague (in two days), a week there, Prague to near Paris (one day), a day at Disneyland Paris (my wife’s birthday), and near Paris to Cumbria (one day).

Now, anyone can see that’s a lot of driving. :)

What’s more interesting - and the point of this blog post - is that with the exception of the first day’s travel and two days of work, I wore my VFFs exclusively, which included:

• Three full days of driving + related wandering around
• Three days of work, including a 15-minute walk each way from our apartment to ‘work’ and back, plus various wanderings in the evenings
• A full day walking around Disneyland Paris

Two notes:

1. They are, by far, the most comfortable shoes I own. My feet were tired (especially after Disneyland Paris), but by no means sore or blistered
2. They are a great conversation starter, with random people in Prague commenting on them

So, from now on I suspect I will be wearing them far, far more.