Kaiserslautern is still nearly four hundred kilometers from Paris, just as it always was, but the travel time is now greatly reduced since 2007, when the French railway system opened a new high-speed stretch of tracks called TGV Est Europeen running more or less straight east from Paris. Most of Read More …
Don’t spend a lot of time searching for # 2 in this countdown, because there isn’t any. This building, the City Hall, was the first and is still the tallest high-rise building in Kaiserslautern. It is 84 meters high (= 276 feet) and has 25 floors. The notable thing about Read More …
Kaiserslautern, better known to my fellow Americans as K-Town, is a city of nearly a hundred thousand people — not counting the fifty thousand American and other NATO military personnel who are stationed nearby. Thanks to the new InterCityExpress rail connection, Kaiserslautern is now less than two and a half Read More …