Kaiserslautern

During our first weekend here a teacher from the school that none of us are even assigned to offered to take us downtown to show us around and take us out to dinner. Kaiserslautern is the closest town with an assortment of shops and resturants. Both the teacher and her husband have lived in this area growing up so they were able to tell us some history of the town and some of the best places to eat and drink at! One of the stories we were told is how the chuch pictured was used at one time by Napolean as a resting place while he was wounded. During his stay a local man gave him medicine from his pharmacy and tended to his wounds. As a thank you Napolean offered the man a gold eagle. The church is still standing and the pharmacy next door has the gold eagle mounted above the door! For dinner we were taken to a local Greek resturant that is owned by a Greek family that also owns an italian resturant down the street as well as a popular bar.