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M&M's Travels

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Here's a map of all of the places Matt and I have been...together and apart, as well as the trips that we have in the works for the near future. Hopefully we'll be able to add a little bit more color to this over the next few years!

Hi! We're Matt and Mandi (hence the 'M&M") and several years ago we caught the travel bug. We're originally from the States and started out just traveling back home but soon started venturing out of the country. Matt is in the Army and we've been very fortunate to have been stationed in Germany and are taking advantage of every opportunity to see everything we can in Europe. This blog is mostly for our family and friends back home to keep up with our many adventures but I hope that there are others out there that get something out of our trips.

If you're at all curious about where we stay when we travel, please check out my TripAdvisor profile at http://www.tripadvisor.com/members/mandi2doors.

If you want to know when we've gone on a new trip you should subscribe to our blog! Click on "Subscribe" below and enter in your name and email address to receive an email whenever I post something new. They won't send you any junk mail and it's a great way to keep up with where in the world we are. If you're more technologically savvy, there's an RSS link below to the right to add our blog to your RSS feeder (Hint: If you use iGoogle you can add our blog to your iGoogle page this way!). Also, please check out our online photo album at http://mnmhull.myphotoalbum.com for more pictures of our trips.

(If you're just catching up on our trips it's best to start and the end and read backwards, as this blog lists the most recent postings first.)

Thanks for reading!

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By mnmhull
October 10th 2008

Sex, drugs, and wooden shoes

Europe » Netherlands » North Holland » Amsterdam

Amsterdam Canal

How's that for an eye-catcher of a blog title?!? For those of you that don't get it, read on :) Amsterdam is a beautiful town and the Dutch people are SO friendly! However, in addition to the wooden shoes and the Anne Frank house (which I'll tell you about in a minute) Amsterdam has legalized drugs and prostitution and they're not subtle about the fact that it's there either. It's difficult to find stuff in the souvenir shops that doesn't have anything to do with marijuana or the Red Light District on it. There are even shops that sell pot, pot [View Full Entry]

I have no idea what that statue is but isn

By mnmhull
October 9th 2008

New photo album pictures!

Europe » Germany » Baden-Württemberg » Mannheim

So our photo album isn't COMPLETELY updated but there are a lot more pictures on there than what used to be. I'm still working on adding the rest and, of course, putting them in order and captioning them (that might take a while so don't hold your breath there...you're lucky they're online!) but you can at least see what I've added. Until I get them captioned, if you're curious what a certain picture is of, please just email me and ask. Here's the link to the photo album http://mnmhull.myphotoalbum.com I'm also working (slowly but surely) on updating the entries in the [View Full Entry]

By mnmhull
August 29th 2008

Yankee Doodle Went to London

Europe » United Kingdom » England » Greater London » London City

M&M with Tower Bridge in the background.

I got to take my third trip to London and Matt finally got to go for his first! We flew RyanAir (of course) which meant we arrived at London Stansted at 6:40am Friday morning, August 29th (Matt wasn’t thrilled about leaving for the airport here in Germany at 3:30 in the morning) but that meant that we arrived in downtown London by 9am and had the whole day ahead of us. We went to our hotel and, miracle of miracles, our room was ready early and they let us check in! We stayed at the Apollo Hotel, which is literally a [View Full Entry]

By mnmhull
August 21st 2008

Paris is for lovers…that’s us!

Europe » France » Île-de-France » Paris

Matt at the Louvre

Matt got back from Romania Wednesday evening at 9pm and by 9am on Thursday, August 24th we were on the train to Paris! He had already missed the whole summer and we didn’t want to waste any more time. This was our first trip just taking the train and, wow, it’s WAY less hassle than flying! The train station is so much closer than the airport, you don’t have to arrive 2 hours early for check-in, you don’t have to put your liquids in baggies, and you don’t have to weigh your luggage. The train to Paris was only 3 hours [View Full Entry]

By mnmhull
July 11th 2008

Florida is HOT in July!

North America » United States » Florida » Fort Lauderdale

Me at the library

Holy Cow! Miami/Fort Lauderdale in July is hot hot hot with 125% humidity! After living in Germany where it's cloudy, cool, and dry unless it's raining, this was a huge adjustment for me. Luckily, even though it's a million degrees outside it's practically freezing inside because of the air conditioning. I forgot how nice it was to go from your air conditioned apartment to your air conditioned car and into another air conditioned building. It definitely makes the heat a lot easier to bear. This was my first time back to the States in a little over a year and it [View Full Entry]

By mnmhull
June 12th 2008

Round-trip to Milan for 18 Euro

Europe » Italy » Lombardy » Milan

The Duomo

18 Euros is about 24 dollars at the current exchange rate, so when I saw a round-trip flight from Frankfurt Hahn to Milan Bergamo for 18.01 Euros (the flight itself was a penny...seriously! We were charged 10 Euros for check-in at the airport and 8 Euros credit card fee) I called my friend Hillary and asked if she wanted to go to Italy for free (because it pretty much was lol). Italy for Hillary is like me and Scotland so she was all for it. We flew into Bergamo late Thursday evening and took the bus into Milan. It was pouring [View Full Entry]

By mnmhull
March 16th 2008

Top of the mornin to ya!

Europe » Ireland » County Clare » Cliffs of Moher

Irish Coast

So on Saturday the 15th we flew out of London Gatwick to Shannon, Ireland. Our flight arrive just after 11pm and we rented a car (we got a Nissan Micra...not a bad little car!). We opted for the upgrade, which was only 4 Euros, because it was an automatic. Now, Stacie and I can both drive stick but didn't want to be bothered trying to drive stick on the wrong side of the road, on the wrong side of the car, and trying to shift with our left instead of our right hand. Yikes! We found our B&B after getting a [View Full Entry]

By mnmhull
March 14th 2008

Look kids, it's Big Ben...and Parliament! Big Ben, Parliament...Big Ben, Parliament...

Europe » United Kingdom » England » Greater London

Platform 9 3/4
Mrs. Weasley says, "Now, all you've got to do is walk straight at the wall between Platforms 9 and 10...It's best to do it at a bit of a run, if you're nervous."

Okay, so if you haven't seen National Lampoon's European Vacation you probably don't get the title of my blog but picture Chevy Chase going around a roundabout in a car for hours on end going "Look kids, there's Big Ben! And Parliament! Big Ben, Parliament!" Now you sort of get the joke :) Anyways, my sister Stacie arrived in Germany on Thursday the 13th and we spent most of the day running around doing stupid stuff. Like the front license plate fell off my car and they wouldn't let me on post without it so that took up a huge portion [View Full Entry]

By mnmhull
February 15th 2008

Girls Weekend!!

Europe » Hungary » Budapest » Pest

Chain Bridge

So, our original plan for this weekend was to go to Rome but work told Matt he was going to have to work this weekend (he ended up not working after all though). So, Megan, Maria, Catherine, and I (their husbands all had to work too) decided to take a girls trip to Budapest for the weekend. Catherine found two 2-person apartments right next door to each other which ended up costing us each 20 Euros per night and were beautiful. The outside was a little scary because it was located right next door to a sex shop but the neighborhood [View Full Entry]

Pariliament Building on the Danube River

By mnmhull
January 4th 2008

Hold on to your wallets...

Europe » Czech Republic » North » Prague

After the police station
Poor Dan! I don't know how he can look so cheerful after such a rotten day!

Well, when you travel as much as we do you're bound to have a bad trip now and then...and apparently it was time for us to have one. This trip was doomed from the beginning and we should have just turned around and stayed home but we really wanted to see Prague. This was just going to be a short trip...leave Friday evening and return home on Sunday evening so we had a lot to cram into two days. We didn't get to see much...here's why. Matt and I went with our friends Dan and Ali who were visiting for several [View Full Entry]