Welcome to Hobbiton

National crisis!!!! Major news all week (I assume nothing else is happening in the rest of the world) and front news on the paper again. Due to union actions, Warner Brothers are considering moving the filming of the two Hobbit moves overseas... Marches, meetings with the Prime Minister and after emergency labour law legislation going through parliament, it looks like the country has been saved and the project will not be lost overseas.

Quick coffee in Matamata Hobbiton - the land of the Hobbit. Call me a humbug, but I missed out on the "Ring" set tour.

Now in Tauranga on the penultimate leg of the trip...