We checked out of our Vienna apartment on Monday morning and drove an hour outside Vienna to Melk. We spotted our destination while speeding along on the autobahn… The Melk Abbey.
On our way into Melk we found a beautiful little privately owned castle on the Danube. Beautiful country side in the Wachau valley.
“Melk abbey is an Austrian Benedictine abbey and one of the world’s most famous monastic sites. It is located above the town of Melk on a rocky outcrop overlooking the river Danube in Lower Austria”. -- which you can see in the postcard they gave to the kids when we bought our tickets. – “The Abbey was founded in 1089. The monastic library soon became renowned for its extensive manuscript collection. Today’s impressive Baroque abbey was built between 1702 and 1736.”
It was fun to walk through the Abbey. We especially liked the ballroom with large windows on both sides letting lots of light in, and library with shelves of books to the ceiling and a ladder to reach them all.
The Ballroom…
The view of Melk from the Ballroom…
On the balcony between the Ballroom and the Library… and a picture of the inside of the ornate Abbey Church…
Dad and the girls in an outdoor hallway… and a walkway into Melk…
Matthew was being so funny on the way home. He REALLY uses his eyebrows all the time. He has such an expressive face – just like Luke. He loves to move his eyebrows up and down really fast and the kids like to show his eyebrow tricks to their friends. Today he was dancing with his eyebrows. I guess being strapped into a car seat doesn’t allow for the more traditional kind of dancing but he still showed his moves with his shoulders and eyebrows. He cracks us up. Love you, cute boy.
The drive from Melk was about five and a half hours and we got home with plenty of time to unpack, start laundry and clean out the car. Love that. It was a good trip.
2 comments:
That last picture is amazing. Looks some place I'd like to go.
What a gorgeous place!! How far away is that place?
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