Here is a photo from our Europe River Cruise last summer. We traveled on the Monarch Princess down the Danbue River. As part of the trip, we stopped in this little Austria village for a visit. Great trip.
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Greek Orthodox Church
MJ, Scott, Kris and I were on our way to our dinner reservations, when we found this wonderful temple right next door to our destination. It was very dark inside, and I loved it. Why I don’t know, but I just liked the mood of the place. If felt safe, cool, comfortable, old... The entrance to this temple (the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church – opened in December 1858) was unlocked, but the rest of the church was secured…probably to keep people like me out. Meanwhile, the group just wanted me to finish up quickly so we could go eat.
By the way, the restaurant was amazing. We ate at Griechenbeisl, which happens to be the oldest restaurant in Vienna Austria. It was founded in 1447 and I can see why. The food was outstanding.
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Aushach
This little village in Austria was very cute. Unfortunately, nothing was open during our stop, but we had a good time walking around anyway. Since we had some time left over before our boat left, I took some photos with the drone. I loved how colorful the village is and the rain in the distance. By the way, our river cruise ship via Gate 1 Travel was great.
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Melk Abbey
This Benedictine abbey in the town of Melk Austria sits upon a hill top overlooking the Melk village and the Danube river in the Wachau valley. The abbey was started in 1089. The abbey started the monastic school in the 12th century and today has over 900 students. This building was built starting in 1702 and finished in 1736. I took this photo inside an internal courtyard.
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Vienna Graffiti
This is Vienna Austria’s idea of street graffiti. As we walked around the downtown city area exploring, I found this little spot and a few other similar style graffiti spots. I loved the old look of the graffiti and the street environment. As you can tell, it was a rainy, gray, cloudy day, which we experienced a bunch during this trip.
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NOTE:………………… After posting this, it was pointed out to me (by my wife) that this isn’t from Vienna. I took this photo in Regensburg Germany. Sorry for the mistake.
