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  • A Wander Through History

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    Chatted with a friend over FB Messenger this morning; I set myself up in the ‘laundromat’ area outside my room, which looks like it’s supposed to be a secondary common space, but mostly seems to be a space people walk through. Sometime during that conversation a couple of identical emails arrived from the Vietnamese Immigration…

  • Merlions and Conversations and Meals, Oh My?

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    Yeah, not my best work, but once I saw the Merlion bit I couldn’t think of anything else.

  • Wandering Around

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    Today was a designated don’t do much day. About my only goal was to get out of the hotel, and I managed that.

  • Fiji to Singapore

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    Slept pretty well, though maybe the poolside beer helped a little with that? I did, of course, wake up early & not really get back to sleep, but that seems to be a thing with travel days.Packing up didn’t take long; I’ve almost got a system for flying days, which is mostly “meds & anything…

  • Auckland to Fiji

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    There’s a bunch I could write about travel planning, and anxiety about travelling, and the things that haven’t gone right so far, but I wanted to write something positive. Maybe I’ll put something in later, backdated to provide the seamless blogging experience you’ve come to expect.

  • Luncheon In Hobbiton: The Green Dragon

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    Lots of images, Yadda Yadda Yadda, you’ve been warned. The tour included a drink at the Green Dragon, and also a lunch in a marquee outside.

  • Luncheon In Hobbiton: I Could Live In One Of These

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    Image Heavy, as usual Something they’ve added in the past year or so is a couple of hobbit hole interiors. Not used in the films, but built by the Weta folks who made the interior sets. They divided the group in two for space reasons, because 30 people in one of those would have been…

  • Luncheon In Hobbiton – Touring Hobbiton

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    Very image heavy, even by my admittedly low standards; You’ve been warned I’m breaking this up into multiple posts, because there are a lot of pictures. For a Too Long: Didn’t Read summary? Hobbiton was awesome. I’d say it was like being there, except that I took the tour from Rotorua to Auckland, which involves…

  • Rotorua

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    According to the booking, this is a city view room, to distinguish it from a lake view room. Franky, I think I’m winning; There’s a hospital out there somewhere, but the trees are doing a great job of hiding it. I don’t remember when I found, or was told about, this place, but it was…

  • Wellington to Rotorua by Coach

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    Unlike the other times I’ve caught a coach recently, this one isn’t me getting on at the start and off at the end of the trip, so I’m taking the Wellington to Tauranga coach, but getting off in Rotorua. I’m only mentioning this because it meant that I had to double check which coach I…