Melk Vacations, Melk Vacation Reviews, Tourism Guide

We were tired of driving, but still had a long way to go to our next destination. I saw a road sign for Melk, and I'd heard that the Melk Abbey was amazing, so we decided to go check it out. This is what's nice about a flexible itinerary. Melk turned out to be a wonderful place.

We took the train from Vienna to Melk where Michele wanted to see the Abbey.  We stowed our bags in the lockers in the train station and wandered down the hill to the town.  We were each given an Easter Egg when we passed through the Pedestrain Zone (remember Easter was coming this weekend).  We worked our way up to the Abbey.  We were under the impresison that you could only take and English guided tour today at 11 am or 2 pm, since it was the off season.  We got the...

My first time in Austria in the summer :D. I knew Austria was beautiful in winter-time, but I liked the green version too!

Melk was to be our last, most western, stop along the valley. Melk (nothing to do with Milk), unlike the previous towns, is on the southern bank of the Danube. Its distinguishing feature is the ginormous Melk Monastery (Stifft Melk). This is actually a number of huge buildings as well as an enormous surrounding garden area. The monastery is several hundred years, dating back to the 900's. However the manificent baroque church and monastery that are currently standing are from the 1700’...