Barefoot hiking

yesterday i managed to go with two friends of mine (well actually one ) for a hike,instead of the usual trip to the beach, if you ask where it's around here. i once got there with my old beta rk6 bike following a friend and couldn't find the place any more. i spotted it thanks to some guy who posted the pics on panoramio, funny that it's not even one ofrom the place. my friend Paolo showed up in sneakers, the girl probably didn't realize what mess of a place i was going to bring them to and put on a pair of flipflops , and since i decided to leave the path the first mile was fairly hard , having to step on thick bushes, piles of dry branches and thorny plants, with temperatures way above 36 C° and the usual humidity and still air in our woods that makes you sweat like the damned. well at some point i heard Paolo "how comes that i am the only one decently shod and the slowest one too?" ...giggles. i also stepped barefoot on an electric fence placed to keep boars away from the endless , stunningly well mantained vineyards coasting the wood , vineyards that produce some of the most delightful (and pricey) nectars of the place. very low voltage of course, but enough to scare the wild hogs when they touch the iron wire with their snout. i forgot how dirty your feet can get with long trousers ... when we finally took some rest by the river i couldn't but notice the utter disgust in the eyes of the girl looking at the tops of my feet gone brown with dust and earth. she also refused a toke and this is still a bearable rudeness , but when she tossed her lousy plastic cigarette dog ends in the water i felt myself a step near to nab and hurl her into the pond too. fishes swallow those shits and die. fucking city ****. the only two souls we met were two anglophone runners, i wondered if they were those ones who posted the photographs.

one suggestion: a long, sturdy stick is the best friend of the barefoot hiker. those who are novices of barefoot hiking should always carry one.now see why barefoot pilgrims were always depicted sporting a crook?