Wachau Trip

This trip was so much fun. I just got to kick back a little and enjoy the scenery. In the morning we left around 8 o'clock and got to the first destination called Melk around 9:30. Melk is in a valley right by the Danube. They are known for their Monastery. This place was HUGE! They use to have 100 monks living there now they only have 30 and they have a school of 900 students there too. We got to be on a tour and see some really old stuff dating back to the year 800. We stayed there til round 11 and then we went to our next destination called Dürnstein. This is mostly where Wachau is. We walked through the town a little bit and then we were told we could climb this mountain to go see the castle ruins at the top. None of us knew how far it was up but lets just say it took a 20 minute walk to get up there. ughhhhh my legs were burning but it was well worth it. The view was gorgeous. I have never really seen anything like it. We got to climb up to the watch tower of the castle and see everything. We were really high up. I have never seen anything like it before. After being at Dürnstein and enjoying the view for a few hours we head to this place called Krems. It is known as a medieval town, but all I have to say is the place is not worth it unless you like looking at a lot of Frescos. We took a tour and it sorta seemed like the tour was just made up and not real. We walked into a room and they told us what was in it before but it didn't like it could be what they were saying and they are trying to restore it. They also showed up a medieval kitchen but the kitchen was completely black and you couldn't see anything. I wasn't a fan. We then headed to a Wine Tasting Place. It was really cool. I took some Benedryl before hand and had less then half a glass of wine. I became a little blotchy but I was fine. We tried for different wines. I didn't really care for the white wines and I had a taste for the red wine. I also didn't know how to drink it so I just smelled it like I was told to and gulped it all at one. The white wines I gave to someone if I didn't like it. We were should how wine was made and we then headed upstairs to their big dining room and had a really nice meal. Everything was great! It was such a great day and I got to meet some people I hadn't met yet. Which was really nice.

The View from the Wine Tasting

Us eating

The Wine Cellar

This huge Wine Keg

The View from Dürnstein

OH NO!!!!

Another View

This was only part way up

The Castle Ruins

The town of Melk

The Melk Abbey

The Abbey

I have a lot of crazy things coming up because I have to gear down for school. I will be in Vienna all week and then the week after I think I will be going to Rome. I will know within the next few days. I would be there saturday and sunday and I would get to go to Vatican City and see all the cool monuments. EXCITING! After that I think the next weekend I plan on going to Salzburg and the weekend after maybe Cinque Terra or Prague. Ughhhh So much to do in such little time. Well I need to go get ready for school. I miss you all.

Love,

Ben