sabato 8 dicembre 2012

giovedì 6 dicembre 2012

To Auckland

Time to return to Auckland. Yesterday there was a tornado in Auckland... We'll see.




Last day on Red Carpet Tour: The Hobbit Premiere

This mornig Horse Trekind!!
Than rest, hot pool and the dinner with the rest of fellowship!!





mercoledì 5 dicembre 2012

Mavora Lakes

Rain, rain, rain...why!?
Again we slept untill 7:30 (R.I.P. The telephone) again pancakes! I'm so glad for that, no more bacon & eggs for me thn.

On the bus for 4h (!!!) and we arrived to The Silverlode River/the Orc funeral pyre/Gandalf calling up Shadowfax/ the Hobbits "hidding place" and where Sam and Frodo left the fellowship!
Some sun, more rain and wind, our very good lunch by Subway and the discovery of the really good taste of the triple chocolate cookie by CookieTime!!
Again on bus and around 16 we arrived back in Queenstown. Time to rest.

At 19 we'll be at Devil Burger with Pam for a great dinner.














To Christchurch

This morning we left Nelson and obviously it was a perfect day for being at the beach, not like yesterday...grrrrrr
We was on the road all time and all we saw were seals.. Cute!
We arrived in Christchurch...I don't like it very much and the Hotel was bad with bad food. Not happy. The only cute thing is the one in the photo

Pelennor Fields through Queenstown

Today is a good day: we killed the hotel's telephone last night, so we could sleep until 7:40! Yuppi!! We had a good breakfast so the start is good! This morning we went to the Pelennor Fields and Lindis Pass and we stopped to Lake Wanaka.





Edoras!!

The day started in a quite bad way: The hotel's telephone rang at 5:55AM to wake us up... and the departure was at 7:15..SO!? I need 20min to get ready, not 1h20min!!!
Bad thing. Bad breakfast.
Anyway, it's Edoras day and I'm excited about that..Diego too, but he's too much pissed off for the early wake up!
And at the pit stop Diego's camera broke for the dust, this means that he can't use that for the diving: 2nd thing to piss him off.
"There is a bridge you don't need anythings to cross the river"... We arrived and, of course, we had to cross over the river... Diego got his letf foot wet.. Yeee (ironic..)
We walked for 3km and we enjoyed the really windy Edoras!!!
Our accomodation was Twizel's MacKenzie where we saw the Southern Cross (after a long and parient wait for the sky to clear off of clouds...)







martedì 4 dicembre 2012

Rohan!!

We forgot to kill the telephone yesterday evening, so.. The bastard rang at 6:45!!! For a departure at 8:30!!!
Ahhhhhhhhhh
Pancakes this morning...sweet!
So, today's destination is Rohan: remote landscape used for the scenes of "The Leaf Brooch Canyon" & where the Rohan village was burned.

Long way and long stay in locations because some of us re-played some scenes from the movie. The late lunch was actually at 15pm (really late for us, flock!!)
We had some tea & scones at 12...and we run to Arrotow. I didn't like very much the fact that we stayed in Arrotown only 30min, we haven't had the time to enjoy the city.
We returned to Queenstown and we had dinner at Devil Burges! BEST BURGERS EVER!!!
I had a Mary's little lamb and Diego enjoyed so much his Yankee devil, as U can saw in the photo!

Than we went to Sturbucks and we really enjoyed our white chocolate mocha, our favorite!

Tomorrow we'll be in Mavora Lakes and we need something to eat, what's better than 2 subway's sandwiches?! Nothing!
So we tool our sandwiches and 4 triple chocolate cookies from CookieTime!

Ready to goooooo!!!!!







venerdì 30 novembre 2012

Yes kayak...no kayak...

...it's too cold! Wind, rain and cold convinced us not to kayaking today, but to do a cruise...ehmm.. yes...cute, but with this "no beach" weather we didn't enjoy very much the view. Now we're back to the hotel and in a few minutes we're going to Nelson "city" to take a white chocolate mocha at STARBUCKS!!!

Not a great day, but, at least, we can rest...we need that!

Tomorrow will be an "on the road" day...for all day...mpf 



giovedì 29 novembre 2012

In Nelson

Ok, let's talk about the "Cows Problem" ... in 2005 there were only sheeps in this country. Now I can see only cows and a sheep sometime... so.. the cows stole the job to the sheeps!??!!!?
Today we woke up at 5.30 A.M. (arghhhh) and we traveled to the second island with the ferry. New bus, new driver, go on the road...and still... cows!!!! Some sheeps ... cows... horse.. WHAT FLOCK HAPPENS!?
Anyway, we met The One Ring Creator at the WOW Museum, drank some wine, saw some old cars and "goosebump style" dresses, returned to the hotel, had dinner with Garlic Prawn noodles from Noodle Canteen!



mercoledì 28 novembre 2012

Te Papa Museum

We're in the Te Papa Museum!! Live!!
So funny visiting NZ and find Italian's painting on TP Museum...ROTFL
U can see our lunch at Te Papa Cafè, the cake it's fantastic!!











martedì 27 novembre 2012

Weta Cave!!

Today I'll go to the Weta Cave!!
Update:
We had the opportunity to see a really goodbehind the scene and we met Richard Taylor again in the Cave tour; he gave me a flyer for an exibithion hosted by himself!
After that we went to Wellington Airport and we saw the giant Gollum, the Trolls and the "hobbiton carousel"... Really really good!!!
Tonight we had dinner ar the Green Parrot and we had a really good time with Pamela!!
Tomorrow there is the Movie Premiere!!!

lunedì 26 novembre 2012

Meet Peter Jackson!!

What a great night! Just met Peter Jackson and Andy Serkis and the other Dwarves!!!
At 7.15 we arrived at the Party and start to enjoy the actors and the people there, the drink and the finger food... then WHAT A FLOCKING SURPRISE!! There were Peter Jackson and E. Wood!!
They stayed on stage for a while and then they met the fans. Sadly I missed Wood, but I met Peter J. so, who cares!! (LOL)
P.J. left too and the party went on... at 22.00PM another big surprise: Andy Serkis arrived, what a big luck for me, I was just there! I could talk and have a picture with him immediately!
So tired for the long day...we went to bed very happy.

Peter Jackson and Me!!!!
Me & Andy Serkis!

Tonight with Daniel R.

After a long trip, we finally arrived in Wellington!!!
This evening we met Daniel Reeve, who talked about his work and showed us a very masterpiece things!
He's a really cool guy, very nice as I remember!! And he's very funny too, he showed us that he drew Wellington and NZ island in the Middle Earth Map.
Very cool evening!!


Today Lothlorien, Isengard and... TheOneRingParty!!

Party Tickets

What a great day it's today!! In the morning we saw Lothlorien and Isengard and this evening there are the World Premiere Costume Party by TheOneRing.net!!! Maybe P.J. Will be there! YES!!

Isengard