My friend wants to visit Germany to see some of the castles, but she doesn't know exactly where she wants to go.<BR><BR>We will also be visiting Vienna, and a trip to Germany may not be feasible this trip - does anyone know if any tour groups offer day tours from vienna to a german castle? <BR><BR>Anyone have any other advice on how I can accomplish this?

The site www.travelwriter.at/about/castles/in_austria/ loweraustria/index.shtml has a good annotated list of such castles. There is another at the site which boasts the web address http://www.tiscover.at/guide/5,en,SC...E/sights.html/. Each link gives you a picture of the castle.<BR><BR>There will certainly be day tours: she can just go and ask the Lower Austria Tourist Board office in Vienna to suggest some, or you could write to them now. Their address is Fischhof 3/3, A-1010 Wien, Telephone: +43 1 53610 6200, Fax: +43 1 53610 6060, Email: [email protected], Web site: http://www.tiscover.com/niederoesterreich then click on English<BR><BR>Please write if I can help further.<BR><BR>Ben Haines, london<BR><BR>

That long reply with no breaks in one line has messed up the format for this, so hope you can still read this. If not a castle, a nice alternative is going to the wonderful monastery at Melk. It has some gorgeous rooms and the famous library, a wonderful setting up on a hill, and you can get there easily by train, and possibly even return to Vienna part way by a boat on the Danube. Great full day trip, but easy.

Sorry for that. Please enter http://www.tiscover.at/, then Lower Austria, then castles. Or use Google for castles lower austria.<BR><BR>Ben Haines<BR>

Ben, I didn't even realize where that post had come from, it is so scattered on my screen. With all the wonderful information you depart here, I guess we can allow you &quot;mess-up&quot;.