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The Many Adventures of M&M

M&M's Travels

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AustriaBelgiumBelizeCanadaNorthern Mariana IslandsIrelandCzech RepublicFranceGermanyGreeceHungaryItalyIraqKorea, SouthKuwaitLiechtensteinLuxembourgMoroccoNetherlandsRomaniaPuerto RicoSpainSwitzerlandTurkeyUnited KingdomUnited States

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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I've got probably 10 blogs that I need to catch up on but I just had to tell you all about our ice cream man. He comes around every day between 7:30 and 8:00 in the evening in his little truck playing typical ice cream truck music. He's from Italy...Sicily to be exact. He speaks a little bit of English but speaks fluent German and Italian so our conversations are a mix of all three these days. I'm sure you've heard me talk very highly about Italian ice cream...gelato. Well, what he sells in the truck is pretty close :) Once [View Full Entry]

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Published: July 27th 2009 | 39 Views | [diary=422735]


Okay, just so you know, most of this entry is going to be about dinner. It was really fantastic! But, before we get to dinner we have to get up in the morning. We didn't have a lot on the agenda for today. We visited some outdoor markets, I got a new leather coat (yay me!!), and we wandered and ate gelato (of course). One thing I did want to do since we had the time was visit a few more museums. I really wanted to go to the Uffizi Gallery but the line was wrapping around the building. I'll just [View Full Entry]

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Published: July 26th 2009 | 51 Views | [diary=399825]


I know...it's been ages since I've been on here to write more about our trip. Let's see what I can remember 2 months later :) So, I believe that I left off with our last night in Cinque Terre. The next morning we got up, ate breakfast, checked out of the hotel, and caught the train to Florence. We had to change trains in Pisa anyway so we just allowed for a little bit longer of a layover there so we could pop over and see the tower. You know which tower I mean right? The Leaning Tower of Pisa :) [View Full Entry]

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Published: July 25th 2009 | 32 Views | [diary=399296]

Michaelangelo's David
Matt on Ponte Vecchio
Our favorite piazza :)

After a great night's sleep in our beautiful hotel we decided to check out the free breakfast (I really try not to book a place unless they have free breakfast). Typical breakfast in Italy is bread, meats, cheeses, cereal, yogurt, and hard-boiled eggs along with water, juice, tea and cappuccino. You can get regular coffee at a lot of places in Italy...they call it Caffè Americano (American coffee) :) While down at breakfast Matt noticed that one of the guys there had a Breitling watch. For those of you who don't know what a Breitling is, it's the type of watch [View Full Entry]

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Published: May 18th 2009 | 106 Views | [diary=399295]

The train to Vernazza
Matt in Vernazza
The two of us in Vernazza

It never fails. Whenever we have an early morning flight I never get to go to sleep regardless of how early I start getting things together, and this was no exception. We had a 6:35am flight out of Frankfurt Hahn to Milan Bergamo, which meant that we had to be in the car driving down the road by 4am. Ugh. I'm SO not a morning person. I can still be up at 3am but PLEASE don't ask me to wake up and function at that time. So, I didn't get to sleep Sunday night. Luckily, we were doing the planes, trains, [View Full Entry]

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Published: May 17th 2009 | 64 Views | [diary=399286]

The mall in Milan
The Bull
Matt spinning on the bull

Today Matt got to cross a pretty major item off of his "To Do" list...we walked across a country. Yep, a whole country. You're probably wondering which country...Liechtenstein. For those of you not up on your European geography Liechtenstein is located between Switzerland and Austria and before you go getting too impressed it's only about 8 miles across. Liechtenstein is the 6th smallest country in the world and is about 62 square miles. It's also the only German-speaking country that doesn't border Germany. Before you run off and search Google for the smallest country in the world (you kno [View Full Entry]

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Published: May 3rd 2009 | 139 Views | [diary=395934]

The Rhein River
Leaving Switzerland
The sheared sheep

So, after we finished our tour of the Salt Mines in Berchtesgaden we had lunch and hit the road for... Vienna! Okay, it sounds crazy but really, it's only 3 hours from Berchtesgaden and a 6.5 hour drive back to Mannheim. We thought it was worth it to be able to see Vienna. Well, Matt had already been there for work last summer but I hadn't been and we were SO close already! It was very spur of the moment (or we would have dropped off those candles for you Mom and Dad...sorry!) and we were excited. Matt's iPhone was invaluable [View Full Entry]

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Published: April 12th 2009 | 51 Views | [diary=390065]


Our original plans for this weekend were to go to Ireland since Matt had a 4-day weekend (Friday and Monday off from work) but, as it turned out, he had to work Friday after all. There was some speculation that he was going to have to work on Saturday (he didn't) so our road trip was kind of thrown together last minute. Matt didn't get home from work until 3am Friday night/Saturday morning so we had a late start on Saturday but by lunch time we were on the road. It was a fun trip...I brought snacks (I made Rice Krispie [View Full Entry]

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Published: April 12th 2009 | 53 Views | [diary=390061]


Our whole group
Our whole group
I'm between the "I" and the "S" and Matt is in the middle of the "R"
If you've seen Forrest Gump then you may recognize the title of this blog as a quote from the movie. If you haven't seen it, well, you should :) Matt and I spent a short weekend in Paris from March 6-8...and anyone who knows me will never believe why we were there... for a half marathon (that's 13.1 miles, by the way). Yes, that's right, I ran. On purpose. (No, no one was chasing me.) And for more than a few minutes. (2 hours and 33 minutes, to be exact). Matt and I and several of our friends ran the Paris [View Full Entry]

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Published: March 17th 2009 | 99 Views | [diary=382629]

Monkey business
Sunny day
In front of the Moulin Rouge

By mnmhull
November 6th 2008
Greece is the word Europe » Greece » Attica » Athens
It all started one night a few months ago in Mannheim when a bunch of us were all sitting around talking and someone, I'm not naming any names (Tom and Heather), suggested it would be fun to run the Athens Marathon. I wasn't fooled but apparently I was the only one not to jump on that wagon because 12 of us met up in Athens this weekend for the marathon. We all arrived in Athens on Thursday and most of us stayed at Hotel Economy in what turned out to be the worst neighborhood in Athens, Omonia. I guess that's why [View Full Entry]

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Published: December 28th 2008 | 23 Views | [diary=344171]

Our B&B
The port at Hydra
Hydra



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