We got away at around 8.30 and biked directly to Melk, 10kms down the trail. We had read that this was a very beautiful town so wanted to spend time there. The town is lovely, so after parking our bikes we did a street tour using a map describing the many lovely buildings before making our way up the hill to the monastery. The monastery up on the hill is huge and beautiful and I couldn't help but wonder on the fall of Catholicism from it's former glory when these institutions would have hummed with activity. The monastery is supposed to house the largest library of it's kind in the world. We opted not to do a tour as it would take us too far into the day and the accompanying heat. Instead we walked the
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