Hotel Moser Melk
Station Place 3, A-3380 Pochlarn Melk, Danube Valley, Lower Austria, Austria
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Melk, another Abbey, another wine tasting
... girls, a big change from when it was only monks who lived there. The church was magnificent. So much gold. So many statues. So much wealth.
From the Abbey we were driven down the Wachau Valley to one of the numerous wineries for more wine tasting. We are finding it rather strange to be sipping on wine or beer at 10 in the morning but there don't seem to be many abstaining. I guess if you book a ...
Quaint village on the Danube
... the hillsides. We couldn’t have asked for better weather considering the season. It was chilly, but the skies were blue and there was no wind. For our wine connoisseur friends, we tasted Gruner Veltliner (touted as Austria’s best white), Riesling, and Blauburger wines. I sailed up the river while Bob (he must have been a bit loopy from the wine!) and a few other passengers wended their way on bicycles – thirty ...
Cellar it
... and rather heavy. Delightful.
But rain or not, there is something really special about cycling beside with Danube with the craggy mountains covered with vineyards rising above on either side. The rain created a ethereal mist making this feel like Gorillas were going to come marching out at any moment.
Arriving at Marg Hermeregild for lunch we enjoyed three more wines and respite from the wild weather. When remounting my bike I found ...
Danube cycle path Grein to Melk
... with the word apple.
We sat outside and watched the locals and a few bikes go by and read about the town. We were sitting under a massive Linden tree said to have been planted in 1300. It was hard to believe, but there were no eye witnesses to dispute it.
We sipped coffee until our waitress came out with two large plates. At first I thought we were going to be eating doughnuts, but they turned out to be apple slices dipped ...
Visiting the Austrian Countryside
Our friend Dave (aka Uncle Dave) visited us from Paris this weekend. We decided to get out of Vienna for a day and see the countryside. We hopped on a morning train to the town of Melk. Besides a sleepy little Austrian town, Melk is most famous for its Abbey. The Abbey was founded in 1089 and has been visited by emperors, popes, Napoleon and even Hilter. ...



