Married up with Wine

Mantra #1: Go, Do

October 11, 2012

Mike and I have two mantras that we say to each other on a near-daily basis. I was never much of a mantra kind of person, but what started out as little jokes or reminders have somewhere along the way turned into very deeply-held beliefs that we possess today. Mantra #1: Go, Do. Go, Do [...]

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Welcome, Weddingbee Readers!

October 10, 2012

For those of you stopping by the page today after my sign-off on Weddingbee, welcome! I’ve been incredibly busy adjusting to life back in the States since we moved back from Spain in August, but I’m ready to start sharing some of my experiences and catch up on some of the travels we had in [...]

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Two Years

October 10, 2012

It seems impossible that we’ve only been married for two years. It seems like it’s been so, so much longer after everything we’ve done in the last 731 days. We started here: Photo by Georgi Anastasov And since then, we’ve visited 14 US States. We’ve been to 12 different countries. We lived in Spain for [...]

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Home

August 1, 2012

Home seems like an inconceivable concept to me now as I face the end of this incredible journey in Spain. I can’t quite wrap my head around the prospect of home and all that it entails. One one hand, I am so, so excited to get back to everything and everyone that I love and [...]

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Cape Town, South Africa Video

July 17, 2012

If you need a refresher of our 4-day Cape Town extravaganza, here is the first recap and here is the second recap. We had a wonderful time overall in Cape Town and would go back in an instant. Here is the video of our trip! Cape Town, South Africa from Mandy Weger on Vimeo. Today, [...]

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South African Safari: The Video

July 12, 2012

So you guys already saw the lion kill video from our time on safari, but that’s not all we saw! We saw some truly incredible, amazing animals and it’s still my favorite trip that we’ve taken. Everything was so unbelievable. We got so close to animals that I have only seen in zoos and it [...]

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Living it up

July 11, 2012

With the final time that we have here, I’ve been so busy living it up that my poor blog has been suffering!! Here’s an update of all that happened: My cousin Rachel came to visit us for three weeks. Here in Galicia, we went to Coruña, Lugo, Santiago and Pontedeume. We stopped in Porto, Portugal [...]

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Running Out of Time

June 6, 2012

Well folks, we’ve known for quite some time that it was likely, but now we know for sure: our time here in Spain will be cut short. We were supposed to be here for a year, but unfortunately it just didn’t work out that way and our final date here will be July 31st. That’s [...]

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Mom & Dad’s Visit to Spain

June 5, 2012

Apologies for my absence last week, but I had a good reason! My parents came to town!! We were so busy bouncing around and showing them everything we could that I just didn’t have a lot of time to sit down and write. I have my latest video here to recap Mom & Dad’s visit! [...]

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The Real Safari Experience: The Hardest Thing to Watch

May 25, 2012

Warning: The following video and photos contain extremely graphic content. This is nature at its most violent and cruel. I went in to our South African safari with the hope that I would see some truly fantastic animals at close range to observe them in their natural state. We had a wish-list of things to [...]

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Cape Town, Day Two: Ken Forrester, 96 Winery Road, Rust en Vrede Wine Tasting, Mama Africa

May 22, 2012

Day two, we had some wine tastings scheduled. We started the day at Ken Forrester’s winery, which as I mentioned we had tried his wines in Philadelphia at Tria a few years ago. It was quite a way to start the day at 11 o’clock! We saw Ken, but as he seemed to be tied [...]

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