Mystery Boots Unveiled...

One last gem from this year's Harrogate Outdoors Trade Show - emphatically not the last Harrogate show ever regardless of what anyone might tell you, and that's official ahem - anyway, back to the last gem, which is a rather nice looking range of footwear from a source which might surprise you.

Before we tell you the brand behind the boots and shoes, take a look at a few pics and decide whether you like the look of them, we did...

If you haven't twigged yet - come on, look a bit closer - the brand is Regatta and this is an entirely new range of Regatta-branded footwear which has been in development for, well, ages. Okay, so no-one's suggesting that Regatta is about to give Scarpa hell in the technical boot market, but this is properly developed outdoors footwear with stiffened mid-soles, waterproof liners and so on.

There are approach shoes - probably the best-looking part of the line-up - lightweight walking boots and even sandals, with even more to come later. We spend a happy evening passing boots around a fish restaurant in Harrogate, unfortunately we were so drunk we lost the press pack and have forgotten most of the salient information about the boots.

What we can tell you is this: they'll appear in shops early next year at very affordable prices, they were mainly developed by a nice man brought in from Hi-Tec who was indirectly responsible for getting us all drunk, that they're available in men's and women's specific versions, there are two levels, one more technical than the other, and that treating journalists to slap-up meals is a two-edged sword once they reach the point of forgetting what you're trying to tell them.

Never mind. The bottom line is that they look like nice boots, we'll have a few on test some time soon and when the nice people from Regatta read this and despairingly send us another press pack, we'll tell you a bit more about them.

Bueno estante :-)