Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Hairdresser on the Embankment / Friseur am Kai

When the weather is nice, we ride our bikes to tennis on Wednesdays. It actually takes less time to ride our bikes than drive because we can cross over a pedestrian/bike bridge that's closer to home than the busy car bridge that is closer to downtown. There's a nice bike path/road with bike lanes along the river that takes us right to tennis. Along the way, we pass this hair salon: Friseur am Kai (literal translation: Hairdresser on the Embankment). It's in one of the few strip-mall type buildings in Salzburg, an ugly cement structure that houses a medical supply store, a small grocery store, and the hair salon. Today they were taking advantage of sunny skies and warm breezes by putting their towels out by the parking lot to dry. It cracks me up. I don't think you'd find many hair salons back in the US drying their towels this way!