Solo in Melk

The river trip to Melk was surrounded by old castle walls, historical architecture as well as the tiered hillside grapevines, notable to the vineyards of this region.



Kevin slept after breakfast then mustered a bit of energy for lunch then he was down for the count to battle whatever nastiness he picked up in the ‘healing’ mineral waters of the Budapest spa.  





Theresa pushed on and went on the tour of a working monastery that also was home to a school for the gifted as well as a handful of monks.  A large section of the museum and the church did not allow photography so sorry for the lack of pictures.  If you want to see some of what was on the inside here is a link.  


Notable was the gas prices and amazing $7 per gallon!

Back on the boat Theresa checked once again on Kevin who was still in healing sleep mode.  So she worked on the blog posts and met some fellow passengers in the lounge area.


Dinner time came around and Kevin thought he was recovered enough to eat an amazing dinner of Chateaubriand, which he accomplished but then immediately climbed back into rest mode.  Theresa returned to the lounge to work some more on the blog.  When she returned to the room for the night, Kevin was still in slumberland.  She hoped all the recuperative sleep would bring him back to the living for tomorrow’s trip to Passau.

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