Cruising between Melk and Krems

I'll have to add the photos after.

Josie, Kevin and Chris were off on a cruise and they kindly invited me along. After spending a couple of days sick and shivering in bed, I was looking forward to some time in the sun.

We had to catch a 1 hour train out to Melk and then a bus from there to the boat. The brochure didn't give us enough information so we ended up in a few wrong places and missed a couple of trains before we were finally on our way.

Going against the tide, the cruise took 3 hours. 3 hours of sun, beautiful scenery, snapping off the occasional photo whilst sampling the local wines. It was a struggle for me to keep my eyes open, such were the soporific effects of the sun.

We only got to have about 15-20 mins in Krems before we had to catch the next boat back. The castle there looked like it would be worth a return trip to investigate.

The Real David

No visit to Florence is complete without a visit to see the real David. Even though the fake David is just good, probably because the real David is indoors, and well displayed with lighting etc... it is somehow more impressive.

What we felt quite perplexing was how easy it was to miss the entrance to the David museum. Here Greg is waiting in line at the entrance. The wall on which he is leaning is covered in graffiti by previous bored queuers. As you can see, it just looks like any other apartment building and there are no nice big signs either to announce that here resides the real David.

More impressive than the David though, were Michaelangelo's unfinished sculptures. Definitely worth the journey.