Getting There
Once again we went
off to the Westbahnhof: this time, by U-bahn.
It was here that I
made a mistake. We intended to take a train to Melk, a boat down the Danube to
Krems, and another train back to Vienna. The ticket clerk offered me a package
of train/boat/train tickets, at a saving. BUT the Seniors Vorteils card did not
then apply. What I should have done was to book the train (with our 45% Seniors
discount), then at Melk I could have shown the train ticket to get a reduction
in the boat ticket, then again claimed our 45% Seniors discount on the train
from Krems to Vienna. Ah well, that's the way it was.
The first train
took us to St. Polten, where we changed to the Melk train, which was standing at
a platform whose number was out of sequence and which nearly fooled several
people!
At Melk, I should
have enquired about transportation. As it was, we walked into town and found the
Old Town and the pedestrian Rathausplatz. The huge abbey is on a hill that seems
to ovehang the town. I walked up as far as the main gate, and down again.
Then we walked to
the boat pier, where we had a choice of two boat lines: each has a boat, and
both boats leave at the same time! The voyage on the Danube took us to Krems.
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The Abbey at Melk.
Photo 1076_02 on 23 Jun 2002
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Path up to the Abbey, Melk.
Photo 1076_05 on 23 Jun 2002
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Entrance to the Abbey, Melk
Photo 1076_06 on 23 Jun 2002
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The Abbey, Melk
Photo 1076_07 on 23 Jun 2002
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Pedestrain area: Hauptstrasse, Melk
Photo 1076_09 on 23 Jun 2002
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Melk, Hauptstrasse
Photo 1076_10 on 23 Jun 2002
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