Years and years ago, I read about Geldrop and how this completely unassuming Dutch town just outside Eindhoven had named an entire estate of street names after Tolkien characters. In fact, when I changed my “bucket list” page to a “wanderlist” page (a list of things I wanted to do that don’t necessarily make “bucket …
Mount Sunday has been on my New Zealand list for a while, and for one reason: it’s the site of Edoras, the town of the Rohan people in Lord Of The Rings. So when a couple of German backpackers posted in the New Zealand backpacker Facebook group asking if anyone had any suggestions for going …
Wellington would be our final stop on the north island on our New Zealand trip, and we had three main things planned: Of course, there’s a lot more that you could do in Wellington, including more LOTR sightseeing, but these are probably the highlights (for us, anyway!). Here’s everything we got up to in three …
I’m not going to lie. In fact, I’m going to come straight out with it. Hobbiton was #1 on our list of things to do in New Zealand. Yep, all the scenery and adrenaline-rushed activities, and our main priority was a film set. We are both HUGE Lord Of The Rings fans, and although we …
