We finally made it to Hobbiton! What a great place. Of course it rained pretty hard while we were there. But we had some breaks in the weather and it was totally worth it.
You have to go by tour - no free range roaming. You meet up at the Shire Rest Cafe and take the tour bus to Hobbiton. The cafe has some LOTR/Hobbit gifts, food, and sculptures. Overall, we found it distracting...we want Hobbiton!
We walked around the dell to view the hobbit dwellings. The attention to detail is fantastic.
To finally arrive at Bag End! Fun fact, the tree above Bag End (last pic) is an artificial recreation of the tree in the movies. If memory serves, it has over 200k hand painted and placed leaves (requiring maintenance) and is intentionally smaller than the one in LOTR to reflect it's size in the earlier Hobbit book. Or, for the cynical, smaller = less cost.
We then headed toward the Millhouse and the Green Dragon Inn for some drinks, passing through Bagshot Row and the Party Fields.
That's a lot for one page. Be sure to check out the Hobbit Home and Green Dragon Inn pages for more fun.
