Get Your Travel Plans Sorted This Weekend With These Online and Real World Events

Why not attend one of these events this weekend?

Belfast Virtual Christmas Market

Fri, 27 Nov 2020 12:00am - 11:59pm

Sat, 28 Nov 2020 12:00am - 11:59pm

Sun, 29 Nov 2020 12:00am - 11:59pm

Shop local this Christmas at the Virtual Christmas Market where local businesses will share and sell their Christmas gift ideas. The 'Buy Belfast' Virtual Christmas Market launched on Facebook during Global Entrepreneurship week on Friday 20 November and will run until Sunday 20 December 2020. The ‘Buy Belfast’ Virtual Christmas market is open to everyone. Once in the group, enjoy browsing through all of our fantastic, local businesses whilst supporting local this Christmas. Click here for more information.

Feel Festive at Belfast Zoo

Fri, 27 Nov 2020 10:00am - 4:00pm

Sat, 28 Nov 2020 10:00am - 4:00pm

Sun, 29 Nov 2020 10:00am - 4:00pm

Come along to Belfast Zoo and see the animals, post your letter to Lapland and you might even see Santa zipping around in the zoo buggy. So hop on your sleigh, grab your mittens and join Belfast Zoo for some festive fun on selected dates throughout November and December. Keepers will treat the animals to special Christmas-themed enrichment such as festive boxes and home-made crackers. Children can explore the beautiful 52-acre site by taking part in the Christmas Trail and be in with the chance of winning a huge lion plush toy. The Treetop café will also have plenty of winter warmers on offer and a free festive treat when you buy non-alcoholic mulled wine. The café is only open at weekends during November and December. Click here for more information. 

Boys from County Hell

Fri, 27 Nov 2020 6:45pm - 8:00pm

This online film is the second feature from the team behind ‘Bad Day for the Cut’. Boys From County Hell was directed by Chris Baugh, produced by Brendan Mullin and Yvonne Donohoe. Welcome to Six Mile Hill, a sleepy Irish backwater whose only claim to fame is the somewhat dubious local legend that Bram Stoker once spent a night in the local pub. It’s home to Eugene Moffat, a young man who fills most of his days drinking pints with his friends and pranking tourists who come to visit the gravesite of Abhartach, a legendary Irish vampire some believe to have inspired ‘Dracula. ’Boys From County Hell' follows a crew of hardy road workers, led by a bickering father and son, who must survive the night when they accidentally awaken an ancient Irish vampire. Click here for more information. 

2020 Santa & Steam Experience

Sat, 28 Nov 2020 10:00am - 6:30pm

Sun, 29 Nov 2020 10:00am - 6:30pm

Due to the ongoing pandemic, Whitehead Railway Museum are unable to offer their normal Santa experience departing from Belfast or Portadown. Not wanting to miss out on a thing, Santa will instead be visiting children at the museum in Whitehead with some of his elves. Hop into your very own compartment in a heritage carriage and see if you can spot the man in red as you go up and down Whitehead Excursion platform being hauled by the festive 101-year-old Guinness locomotive. After your short train ride, your bubble will get to see Santa for a quick picture (at an appropriate distance) each child will also receive a present. Before you leave, you can help yourself to some mulled wine or hot chocolate and a mince pie. Click here for more information. 

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