The Shire...in the "Green Dragon" at Bag End

But at first there was a lot of smell of foul gas...I really thought, kid can't control himself...if you're sitting close to each other all the time, you have to be able to smell each other too. But then the sources were in Rotorua. These get really hot...you could cook in them if it didn't smell so awful of sulfur and methane gas.

Then off to the Shire, about 50 kilometers away. It was like in the movie, a fantastic tour in fantastic weather right through Bag End. There's nothing more you can say about it! I immediately grew elf ears. I was actually supposed to have an important role in the film myself...as Legolas, it didn't work out, it was too graceful. Child now (since I've gotten a little older) reverently calls me Elrond-Pitti.

On the way back I was able to cross off another item on my life's bucket list: I went to Wendy's, the iconic burger shop from my childhood daydreams that I had never seen from the inside...I came from the East and the Wendy's in Aschaffenburg was closed...here I was able to they don't react so quickly.

Tomorrow we're off to Napier for a night...flyover stage on the way to Wellington, so to speak, but we'll keep our ears...er eyes peeled.

Windshield wiper instead of indicator counter: 66

coming soon

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