Supporting the Greek economy

Sounds a lot better than 'the day I went crazy in Zara'...

But it's true. But my actions are completely justifiable if I explain it as supporting the local economy!!

And to be fair, although this may be slightly worse, it wasn't just Zara I went bananas in. But it began here...

On Ermou, the main street going down from Syntagma, there is a 3-story Zara right t the top of the street. As the weather was grey, freezing and wet, I ducked in to seek shelter. I had a.. Sizeable browse around the ground floor, and tried on about 15 garments. I selected a few and put them behind the counter, while I continued to browse the other floors... I went into three different changing rooms with a minimum of four garments (I really couldn't help myself!) and am pretty sure I searched all three floors quite successfully. In the end, I loved so many of them, and subsequently own about six of them; 3 tops, 2 jumpers (one with elbow patches!!) and a skirt.

In Pandora, I fell in love with this black onyx flower ring; unfortunately it was out of my 'under €50 budget' (self imposed, not buying one item more than €50 unless totally and utterly, almost life-changingly unavoidable) so instead I got a charm for my bracelet, with the evil eye. This is the Greek protector, and I'm currently wearing it on my necklace as a pendant :)

I tried on THE MOST AMAZING shoes - Jeffrey Campbell 'rock me' heels. They are tan leather with pops of almost magenta/fluro pink... The best part was the heel, cut out wedge! So in love, but for €205, it again blew my €50 limit... Sigh!

I popped into H&M because I liked their blue wide-knit jumper on display in the window. Five minutes later I walked out with said blue jumper, and another skirt...

All day I was thinking my poor boots were looking quite sorry for themselves (my Pimkie €50 winners from last trip to Munich.) so I popped into some shop near Zara. They had 25 next to all their boots, and I thought 'that's not a vey clever numbering system'... Turns out, all the boots were €25!!!!! Thus, i tried on two pairs - a knee-high grey pair, and patent black ones with a bit of puff (ultra Greek). As they were so cheap, I got them both!!

As such, when I arrived at Pappou's I had a whole new outfit to wear to lunch :)