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German women flock to Polish hair salon heaven
A village on the Polish-German border is becoming a hotspot for German bargain hunters seeking cheap haircuts.It may only be a small Polish village of 200 inhabitants but each week hundreds of German women beat a path to Osinow Dolny, which claims to have the greatest concentration of hair salons on the planet.
Armed with purses full of euros, the women travel 60 kilometres (40 miles) from Berlin to a Polish border region otherwise seemingly left behind by Poland's post-communism boom.
Driving down the main strip on a grey March day, the village is festooned with candy-coloured signs – many in German – that advertise establishments such as "Friseur Salon Zuzanna," "Friseur Ada" or "Friseur Teresa."
Demand from German women coming for a blue rinse, a perm or just a tidy trim has been so great that the number of salons has not only grown but those already established have expanded into prefab huts, next door premises or even their gardens.
Others have also branched out into other services, like manicures and facials.
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