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….?