There’s a hob­bit-abrew­ing in this wee city of ours. Today we’ve got anoth­er guest post from HeatherC from Food­ie Gems of Welling­ton all about the mar­kets going on. Get in quick! 

If you’re a LOTR fan, you could do worse than get your­self down to Wai­t­an­gi Park for 6pm each of the next three nights (Sun­day 25th Mon­day 26th, Tues­day 27th Novem­ber).  The tril­o­gy is show­ing on a big screen there, one per night, as part of the build up to red-car­pet Wednes­day.

And for all those essen­tial hob­bit items for your next par­ty (or all your poor non-Welling­ton friends who are miss­ing out on all the fun this week), the Hob­bit Arti­san Mar­ket is oper­at­ing from noon with a num­ber of inter­est­ing stalls.  Includ­ing Weta with offi­cial Hob­bit mem­o­ra­bil­ia, Stans­bor­ough, the offi­cial weavers for the Hob­bit (some cool cloaks for sale on their web­site), Wheel­er Sculpt­ing and Knives, knife mak­ers for the movie, and many oth­ers offer­ing pot­tery mugs, leather goods etc.

There’s also a small but good range of food out­lets to spread your­self around over the three nights, includ­ing The Dumpling House (Mid­dle Earth mush­room dumplings), Frtiz’s Wein­ers, Food for the Peo­ple (white­bait frit­ters and free range pork burg­ers for starters), Six Bar­rel Soda, Crepes a Go-Go (check out the young hob­bitish lad with the ears mak­ing the crepes), Carel­lo del Gela­to (Hid­den Trea­sure gela­to), and the shiny sil­ver Mojo car­a­van to round it off.

And the Met Ser­vice are giv­ing us pret­ty good news for the next few days too.  What more could one ask for….?