“Hi there. Nice of you to visit.”

“I’m a Kiwi, please don’t eat me!”

following the footsteps of the hobbits

For the next two months our trip will take us to New Zealand or “Aotearoa”(the land of the long white cloud) as it is called by the Māori people. Even though we really enjoyed the Pacific Islands, we’ve been looking forward to this part of our travel for a very long time. Not only have I bought my first travel guide of New Zealand 15 years ago (and never made it there) but now that Peter Jackson filmed both “The Lord of the Rings” and “The Hobbit” in New Zealand, we will even have a chance to see some of the movie locations on the way 🙂

“Haere mai Aotearoa!”
“Welcome New Zealand!”
“Vedui’ Middle Earth”

here we come …