He walked away from his desert village in Eritrea with nothing but sandals on his feet.
It's a combination of all of my favourite things – fantasy, swords and sandals, swashbuckling fights, stop-motion skeletons – it's got everything I ever wanted as a 12-year-old boy in a film.
Men and fashion, it is sometimes said, go together like socks and sandals.
Already one million tourists have arrived – spilling out of archaeological sites and the narrow alleyways of the picturesque Plaka district beneath the Acropolis, piling into restaurants and cafes and cramming the stores that sell the fodder of every classic Greek holiday: sandals, statues, T-shirts and bags.
You feel comfortable in one: teamed with wedges or sandals, or worn over a cropped pant, they are ideal for summer.
Platform sandals and 10 denier tights Kate Moss- and Sienna Miller-approved winter after-dark dressing.
His terrorist sandals may momentarily seem hard to fill, but as history sadly demonstrates, not impossibly so.
In the city centre, cheerful visitors and proud Glaswegians crammed into pavement restaurants and bars or ambled around the city in shorts and sandals until late into the evening.
Graced by a visit by the Queen, their honorary president, for the centenary AGM, the vast majority of delegates have turned out in Sunday best: smart floral dresses, sensible sandals.
Why aren't they available in the UK? Eileen Fisher's sporty sandals An easy and good-looking segue into the whole ugly shoe trend.
Something that encourages daytime drinking and makes you feel good about wearing sandals to the office.
