Haircuts at Corniglia!!

Jenny and I were both in need of a haircut and colour, so while we were having a rest day in Corniglia we went to the hairdressers to see about an appointment. The hairdressers was full of ladies getting their hair coloured black!! Of course the hairdresser had very limited english but we made scissor snipping movements with our fingers and somehow got her to understand that we wanted a colour or "coloure" in Italian. She then gave us a business card and eventually we understood that she wanted us to go to the cafe further down the street which her daughter Christiana owned and Christiana could speak english and she had to write down for us what we wanted and then we took the instructions back to the hairdresser!! So with a fair bit of trepidation we made our appointment for the next day. Jenny's appointment was first so I said to Jenny if she came out looking weird or with blue hair I wasnt going to follow!! Louisa was the hairdressers name and it was a bit strange spending over 2 hours sitting in a hairdressing salon not being able to understand what the hairdresser, the other old lady getting her hair done and what seemed like half of Corniglia who just calling in for a chat were saying! Anyway Jennys hair looked great with her cut, colour and blow-wave so that made me feel a bit better!! It was funny when she put the colour in my hair as I had been trying to get her to understand that I didnt want any red "rouge" tinges and the colour when it went on was bright orange, I must have looked worried as she said a couple of times "no orange, no orange" in her Italian way. Louisa had a resident cat called Lucy who looked very at home in the salon, she had a blanket on the couch, and she sat up on the bench in front of my mirror while I was having my colour done!! After all that we were both very happy with the results, as were the boys! Louisa had blow-waved mine straight and it looked quite glam (for a while). That was until we went on a long walk and got caught in the rain, I ran into Louisa in the cafe later that daz and she looked at my hair and threw her hands in the air as if to say "what happened to your hair!!". David went in the next day and had a trim as well so Louisa did fairly well out of the Australian tourists!! And yes ANOTHER cat Corinne!!!