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| Posted by: Bremer Oct 29 2019, 03:34 PM |
| OK, not really "winter", but surprising: Last week, we had an unusually warm day for late Oktober - must have been 10-12°C. Not the kind of waether, you expect barefoot sightings. I work at a university (with shoes) and on that day, I was surprised to see a girl walking barefoot in the cafeteria. Very unusual I thought - just a few hours after that, right as I was getting ready to leave work and go home, I see out of my office' window another girl walking barefoot on the parking lot, playing some silly games with the other Freshmen. Here feet were all red, callused and dirty. I could not believe... On my way home - just after I left the train, now beeing barefoot - there is another girl in bare feet waiting at the train station. When she spotted my bare feet, she even smiled at me and gave me a thumbs up! Sadly the station was crowded and I could not talk to her, but by the time I arrived at the station it was alredy dark and quite cold - here feet glowing red :-) I was really surprised to see one barefoot girl in this cold weather, but three ?! Never happened to be before! |
| Posted by: dirsoles Oct 30 2019, 11:05 AM |
| Bremen? 👍 |
| Posted by: Bremer Oct 30 2019, 12:24 PM | ||
No, but northern germany. But I actually saw this one girl today again, on the first winter day - just around feezing. As I was barefoot also I approached her and briefly talked to her, she goes barefoor all the time, all winter except for extremly cold weather. Her heels were really cracked and callused with ingrained dirt. She also told me she knows some other people barefooting year round, but not in this city. This is the first time I coincidentally meet a young, beautiful girl that barefoots all year round. Sadly I work at the place so it is difficult to talk to her for me - I really hope one day I will have an encounter like this in a more private setting, a party or so... |
| Posted by: Hal Heaven Nov 7 2019, 10:04 PM |
| Wow, sounds amazing. Lucky you! -Hal- |
| Posted by: Bremer Nov 9 2019, 10:38 PM |
Well, yes and no...it was surely very cool to see - and even briefly chat to - a girl that habitually walks barefoot in freezing weather. Never happened to me before and very cool to see, that those girls really exist  Still, as I work in this place, it is highly unlikely that I will ever have a chance to talk to her for longer chat. And as I live 2 hours away from the place I work, I will also never bump into her in a non-work-related setting. But still, I will keep my eyes open while I am running around campus at work to see if I can spot her again - want to know if she stays bareoot through the snow days! |
| Posted by: Bremer Nov 12 2019, 11:44 AM |
| ...just to add - I work at different universities for over a decade now and have never expirienced this: This year, barefooting seems somewhat "common" among our freshmen - even though semester started in October and we have temperatures around freezing since the semester started. As I wrote, I have seen two barefoot girls on campus in cold weather and even briefly talked to one of them. Last week - temperatures about -1/-2 C - I was on my way home from work (barefoot) and met a student - a guy - that was also barefoot. He told me, he barefoots all year round, even in the most harsh weather conditions and does not even own shoes anymore since about one year. He told me, that he has already seen other barefooters - mainly girls - occassionally since he started university in mid october. |
| Posted by: Hal Heaven Nov 16 2019, 12:54 PM |
| Sounds great. Maybe I should enroll again at a university ;-) -Hal- |
| Posted by: Bremer Nov 19 2019, 09:55 AM | ||
I find it somewhat common to see students (male and female) barefoot around campus during summer, but most of them have probably taken off their shoes at universty. Some still come to college barefoot in summer. I remember some girls I see frequently in Bus/Tram barefoot during summer days on their way to university. Still, barefoot during winter is also not common on campus - I have seen the barefoot guy several times again, even last week during freezing and wet conditions. I have not seen the barefoot girl again in the last 2 weeks even though I actually keep my eyes open while I am on my way to cafeteria or otherwise busy on campus. After this "encounter" I have actually rembered that somehing similar had happened to me several years ago. I was working at another university in an other place, about 10 years ago. One winter day it was covered in snow and ice, must have been around -5°C, I was on my bike on my way home after a long work day, it was already dark. Close to campus a girl passed my (also on bike but in the other direction, towards campus) - she was barefoot. I did not believe but there was nothing I could do, we passed in a matter of seconds and she was gone. A few weeks later I was on my way home from work again on a very cold winter day. Stopping at a Supermarket close to campus, 2 hippie girls approached my and asked why I was barefoot. One told me that a friend of them also barefoots year round, even in the snow. She would not own shoes and live in a van parked on campus. Several months later - it was already autumn - I was one day walking around on campus during my lunch break - I saw the girl from the bike again, doing some work on a van parked at the campus. I suppose this was the fried she talked about. |
| Posted by: Hal Heaven Nov 19 2019, 06:18 PM |
| Thanks a lot for sharing those experiences with us. Sounds amazing, like a dream come true. I'm personally not a huge fan of cold-weather barefooting (I always think the woman must have freezing cold feet, even though this is probably not the case -- my brain can't get past this) but I would still be positively in awe to spontaneously see a women walking barefoot in cold weather. I've only seen this in real life maybe 5-6 times. -Hal- |
| Posted by: Bremer Nov 20 2019, 09:38 AM |
| Well, what means "cold"...I have seen occasionally girls (and guys...) barefoot in 10°C or 12°C weather. Not only this 2 girls 2 weeks ago, I also saw approached and talked to 2 more girls this year, one I saw in the tram in early spring, one just a few weeks ago in october in the libary. However, it is really different once we talk about cold, freezing winter with ice and snow. I have actually only seen this two girls so far, the one 10 years ago on bike and the one on campus 3 weeks ago. I remeber a few years ago I was in Berlin and saw a barefoot girl with her shoed boyfriend in freezing weather at a Kreuzberg subway station and a women in her early 30s at a large train station - but both only out of the corner of my eyes and in very crowded conditions, so I could not get a good look or even talk to them. Thats it over the last about 10 years - would you mind to briefly share your "shightings"? And, yes - our feet get cold they get numb and our toes hurt like hell - but still not as bad as wearing shoes. Maybe it is different for me, as I also barefoot year round and as I am always glad to meet a like-minded person. |
| Posted by: BicycleRepairman Jan 16 2020, 06:13 PM |
| Nice find on insta: young woman in Frankfurt a.M., I guess from today or some days ago. https://www.instagram.com/p/B7YzAUUInOV/ |
| Posted by: shifter Jan 16 2020, 09:39 PM |
| wow, great find! |
| Posted by: alyfab Jan 17 2020, 08:09 AM |
| That’s really special...Frankfurt is really cold, or, at least, it used to be... I lived there for more than a year at the beginning of the 90’s |
| Posted by: BicycleRepairman Jan 17 2020, 04:47 PM |
| The creator reacted to a certain "Burkhard" (one of the members here?); looks like the picture is from the 7. Dezember 2019, at around 10°C/ 50°F. |
| Posted by: Bremer Jan 19 2020, 06:50 PM |
Turely nice picture - it is reall rare to see someone going barefoot in late december, even with temperatures comparably warm at 10°C...but those people (male and female) do exist  I have been seeing the girl I wrote about earlier frequently - every other week or so - around campus. Sometime she wears shoes, but shes barefoot the most time, even with temperatures just above freezing. We briefly chat occasionally and she says she is walks barefoot for several years, also in freezing winter conditions with ice and snow. However she puts shoes for weather reasons when the snow is really deep, temperatures go way below freezing and she knows that she will have to stay outdoors for some longer time. She says she never encountered this kind of conditions in the mild north, but it happens frequently when shes visiting the alpine south in the winter. |