Late in the evening we moor in a little village, Dürnstein – on our sketchy map it looked like there should be an old church or castle to explore. The pontoon was very convenient – a sign said that you were allowed to stay there and it was built so that you could do it without being in way for bigger cruising ships.
Ellide Embla, picture is taken next morning, in better light
We had already had dinner, but decided to stroll into the village, stretch the legs. The village was totally asleep, but we found a small wine-bar and decided to have a drink. The place surprised us first by not having beer and second by not having coke J, we get local homemade wine and homemade grapes’ juice. When we asked the owner what “dorf” this was he got very offended and told us that this was in fact a “stadt”. A very old town, and the smallest in Austria,400 inhabitants. It is famous for having imprisoned the English king Richard the Lionheart. On top of the hill they have ruins of a castle from the 12th century. It was destroyed by the Swedes (centuries ago though) the owner of the bar told us. Before leaving the wine bar we decided to have a look at the village and the castle the next day. The owner said it would be more tourists tomorrow as they receive ca 1 million tourists a year here, but all of them are “day-tourists” coming with the cruising ships or bicycles he added.
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