As soon as we finished our lunch at the Stiftsrestaurant Melk, the lovely restaurant in Melk Abbey, we rushed down to the Danube river bank for the cruise. It is a short 10-min walk from the Melk Abbey through the town, and part of the Danube (Wachau) Valley Tour (Read […]
The Danube, or Wachau, valley tour is a wonderful day trip from Vienna. It starts from Melk, with a tour of the famous Melk Abbey, followed by a ferry ride on the river Danube that take you past lovely countryside, stops by Durnstein, the beautiful town famous for its castle […]
Meadows, wild flowers, charming chalets, lofty trees, lakes, snow-capped Alps…these images of Austria had long enamourmed us and had implored us to plan an Austrian holiday. But bound by our self-set rule to not go back to the same region within 2 years (4 yrs ago we went to Switzerland […]
