Along with the numerous Italian restaurants, the plethora of coffee and cake establishments and the myriad shoe shops, Saarburg, known by its many unsuspecting new inhabitants as God's Waiting Room, is also The Place To Be for the hard of hearing. Having numerous places for old people to shop in means they too can benefit from competition in the market. This goes some way to explaining why the shops still close on Saturday afternoons, as pensioners can go to town at any time.
It is the proud sign of a town that has no landscaped parks, no mobile technology outlets, no fashion chain stores, no baby clothes shops, and even no pubs.
Local resident, Hartmut Landei, says; "We should be investing in the future, and that's what we're doing, even if it's the far future for many voters - sorry, residents."
