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[peripeteia]

I really want to write a decent entry about the past few days, covering everything from the incredible flora and fauna to the proprietors of the Takou River Lodge to the disappointing Hundertwasser toilets in Kawakawa to the cafe (and Dutch cheese store) where we stopped on our way home yesterday, but, truthfully, I spent the entire weekend almost

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[exitwounds]

this place is one of the strangest and most beautiful i've ever seen. you are so lucky to be there!

now i want to come visit laden with presents :)

[bizza]

Middle Earth's pretty, isn't it?

That sunset is amazing.

tim.

[peripeteia]

What's kind of hilarious is that they didn't film any Lord of the Rings stuff up there - apparently parts of the Shire were about as northerly as they got when filming, and even those were a couple of hours south of Auckland. Kind of mind-boggling, but I suppose it means I've plenty to look forward to when we do travel south!

http://asni.net/lotr_map.html

[bizza]

I went to Dunedin and Invercargill a while back (my stepfather's from near there), and it was very pretty down south there. If kinda cold. Milford Sound's very much worth going to, too.

I'd assumed they'd shot some of the warmer-looking scenes and the more desolate scenes around the volcanic areas on the North Island. But yeah, interesting map...

So you've got plenty to look forward to!

Also, how good is this line?

"And why are we always dreaming of disaster
Yet we live our lives so careless and so comfortably?"

tim.

[grapefruitmoon]

Not to sound like every third person who commented in my own journal when I was living in Iceland, but, um...

WOW. CAN I MOVE TO NEW ZEALAND? Right now? PLZ?

[peripeteia]

You should visit!

Hope everything's going okay...

[grapefruitmoon]

If I ever get the funds, I will definitely do so.

Everything's fine for the moment. Just waiting. It's like like waiting for Godot, really.