So Wednesday 3 June saw us heading from Grein to Aggsbach Dorf with a 5 km ‘hurtle’ straight down the hill to the pier as a bonus start to our 50 km ride. We stayed on the north side and passed by particularly narrow bit of the river near Struden – ‘feared’ by ship captains in the past- and crossed to the south again at Persenbeug.
There are lots of barges on the river- mostly empty going upstream. At Persenbeug we watched the large loch begin to fill and had coffee in a summer setting in the old market square in Ybbs It was as though all our known pilgrims had been programmed to turn up in the same place as many of our fellow cyclists peddled in. We headed to Melk for a late lunch in the town square below the very imposing, town-dominating but very beautiful Benedictine monastery which we visited. We roamed the old town, had obligatory ice creams which were somewhat regretted as there was one killer hill that hit us on the 8km trek that separated us and Gasthof Lechner at Aggsbach Dorf.
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