From the owner: Parvis de la gare Cette place est à voir pour la gare. En effet, la gare de Metz est un immense…read morebâtiment de style néo-roman abondamment décoré de bas-reliefs et de vitraux. Mais cette place est également aujourd'hui célèbre pour ses lampadaires contemporains que l'on doit au célèbre designer Philippe Starck.

Sure, it does look like a 60's building, but I guess that is fairly typical of their railway…read morestations. Mind you, it isn't as if they don't have nice railway stations in German, they certainly do, but sadly Saarbrucken really isn't one of them. However, while the station may not be all that great, the trains certainly are, unless you happen to be crossing over into France they you will actually discover that Europe isn't all flashy highspeed rail (though I do remember they did run a high speed train through here to Paris). Mind you, as I mentioned, the trains are fairly frequent, and the station isn't all that bad either, it's just not too fancy.

The thing that annoyed me about this station was the lack of power points, but I suspect that is…read moresort of the case with pretty much all railway stations the world over. Anyway, it is basically your typical railway station, at least for the regional trains that go about the area. You can even get a train from Luxembourg City to here, so that certainly worked, and it also meant that I could sit down and have a beer as well.