Day #3
We left Wien in the morning, and traveled to a small town called Krems. It's an old town, it exists for a thousand years. It's oldtown was pretty nice with renaissance and middle ages like houses, and a gothic church. It was lovely ^^ Our Ship to Melk left from here as well :)
The trip to Melk was pretty nice, the ship was beautiful ^^ We could eat and drink, and the waitresses wore some kind of renaissance maid-like uniforms. Sadly, I have no picture of them, but they looked gorgeous! The trip lasted 3 hours, and I drank two glasses of beer and ate a spaghetti during it. The weather wasn't too nice, it was foggy as you can see on the pictures.
When we arrived, we visited the monastery of Melk. Big surprise, the guide I hired there was hungarian, so she could tell us all about the buildings and items in their museum in our native language. The monastery itself was amazing. It was richly ornamented, and had 60 rooms for visitors. They even had kings and queens visiting before. Their library was huge too, and they had pretty expensive and rare items, like gold plated crosses with all kinds of jewels, rich bishop outfits and baroque style golden relic keepers. They claim to have a piece of the wooden cross Christ was crucified on.
They even have a big church in baroque style. It was so rich too. They accomplished the motto of the baroque era perfectly with its interior, to 'Bring down Heaven to Earth'
At the end of the day, we went to a city (I don't remember its name) where Franz Ferdinand from the royal Habsburg family, and his wife lived. He was the heir of Emberor Franz Joseph I, but was killed in Saraievo on the 28th of June, 1914. This assassination led to the start of World War I, but it was rather just an excuse to start the war finally. The heir and his wife was both murdered that time, and they are buried here. They made their home a museum of how they lived, what they liked, and about that fateful day as well.
