After getting quite drunk the night before we had a bit of a lie in on our final full day in Wellington. Then at 1.30pm we headed out on the Lord of the Rings half day tour. I actually didn't really realise how much of the Lord of the Rings trilogy was filmed in New Zealand, but it seems pretty much all of it did. We went up Mount Victoria, with our guide Rendall and visited spots where Frodo and the rest of the hobbits were in the first movie. Rendall, for me, was the highlight of the tour. He was hillarious, coming up with various stories of how the men on horseback (think they were called Raiths) could come flying down the hill side with only a moment's notice and that they can sometimes be
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