An expected journey
July 7th 2013 We awoke in the morning to the news that The British and Irish Lions had triumphed in Sydney. We immediately celebrated with a lie-in. As todays activity had already been booked in advance, we were off to The Shire. We met the tour bus at “The Shires Rest Area”, a bespoke gift shop on the edge of a farm.
In 2003, when scouting for locations for Hobbitton, Peter Jackson stumbled across a sh
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