Bike Trip

     I really enjoyed our bike trip from Melk to Krems and our tour of the Monastery in Melk. The monks have a huge library which takes up several rooms! Today parts of the Monastery are used as a school while other parts still house monks.
    

Monastery in Melk

library

     Our bike trip took several hours because we went about 30km. It was a beautiful sunny day for us, but it wasn’t super hot. We had to follow little signs that pointed us in the right direction. Sometimes we didn’t see the sign, or had to go back to catch some of our friends who had missed the sign so they wouldn’t get lost. For the most part it wasn’t too hard to figure out where to go because we followed the Danube. Sometimes were biking in the country in little forests, in orchards, or near a cornfield, but at other times we got to bike around in little cities.

Cornfield

Castle ruins on a hill

Lindsay, Amanda, and I taking a short break

On the trail

     Most of us ran out of water early on, but were able to fill up when we found a hose connected to a spigot randomly on a street corner. We also found a little fruit stand with a sign advertizing pears as being 20 cents each. Food sounded great, so we put our money in a little glass jar next to the box of pears and took the appropriate number. We ate some of the pears before continuing on our journey and found that they were still hard, but we didn’t mind because we were so hungry. We saw lots of castle ruins on the hills along the trail. By the time we made it to the train station in Krems we were sore and sweaty, but had had a great time.