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A few weeks later in Tauranga, we joined about dozen cruisers area, The Shire’s Rest with its café, gift shop and restrooms, it was
aboard a mini-bus bound for Hobbiton. Most of our fellow passen- obvious that the movie had forged ardent new fans from every gener-
gers became fans of the Hobbit more than a half century earlier, de- ation. Tours sell out quickly during the New Zealand summer season,
cades after it was published in 1937. The bus ride was nearly two so reservations are highly recommended. We had just enough time
hours, but viewing the amazing New Zealand countryside kept us to refresh before we were herded into a Hobbiton bus and introduced
occupied through the journey. As our bus unloaded us at the staging our young New Zealand guide who would lead us through the Shire.

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