So much for a quick run to Bree

Oh no was that another 6hr session? It's too easy to get side tracked in the game :-)
Lots of less than exciting grinding I think is the term and a lot of running, mainly across the Shire.
Really the whole point of the session was to get to Bree and complete the three "do something in Bree" quests you get. But instead I became journeyman metalsmith, mastered my apprentice prospecting skills, did several other unrelated quests and now have 19 quests to do in and around Bree/Shire/Barrow Downs/Old Forest/Forsaken Inn. (And that list of places is why this game is so much fun)

Which should be much more fun than running through the neatly tilled fields of the Shire.