Footwear for the wet season in Bali

I’m a bit of a slow learner for sure. You actually have to bash me over the head with the facts for them to sink in. A couple of weeks ago my trusty Teva sandle started falling apart at the sole. Not wanting to discard those valuable sandals, I thought about gluing them together and in the mean time wearing some canvas ‘Vans’ type shoes.

This is the wet season meaning we get sudden downpours and side streets often get flooded. After my canvas shoes got soaked a couple of times and started to stink, I moved over to Nike running shoes. These lasted 24 hours before a monster storm saw me wading through puddles, soaking them too. Returning to the semi dry canvas shoes I thought ‘enough is enough’. Yesterday I bought a 3,000rp tube of super glue from Bintang and stuck the sandal under a chair leg. I’m now wearing the sandals again and let me tell you they are the bomb! Who cares how deep the water is now.

This made me think of visitors to Bali who get caught out shopping of walking around. In my opinion sandals are great for the wet season, other shoes for the dry season.