Portadown People's Park - the first time one hears the name "Fairy tale Forest", one just starts to guess what are the characters and things he/she would meet there, but when we reached the place, we finally knew :-)
Portadown People's Park is a park in Portadown town that is located in county Armagh, Northern Ireland, and which manages to host different events and is also a place that is suitable for different age groups.
From the different things found inside this park, there is the state of the art play park that is suitable for all age groups starting from toddlers and ending with teens. Inside the park there is also the themed gardens with there different features and benches. There is also the pond area with the two bridges which holds different activities there, such as pond-dipping and mini-beast hunting, as well as different varieties of trails for all different ages to enjoy and walk through. In this park, there are also some sport facilities such as the two grass soccer pitches, the one grass multi sports pitching catering for Soccer, American Football, Gaelic Games and Rugby. And eventually, there is the amphitheater where different events are being held there.
So apart from all these different things that could be done in Portadown People's Park, there was the Fairytale Forest event which we decided to take the kids to in order to have some fun there. Once the kids entered the event through the grand gates of the park, they started a trail where they met different characters and where they also started solving puzzles, playing games, and finding answers for the questions asked to them, and at the end of this journey inside the park, they finally received a reward - a chocolate unicorn.
Following the trail was the first thing the kids wanted to achieve to see what the end holds out for them, but after finishing the trail, there were several activities from which they could choose one and do, such as the puppet shows at the amphitheatre, the maypole dancing, or even any of the crafts workshops which were found there - it was really interesting.
It is really interesting to come across those favorite cartoon movie characters in real - such as the beauty and the beast which we were welcomed by inside the park - as well as other ones which the kids where so excited about seeing (and touching) and then ending it all with taking a picture before leaving.
After getting done with this trail - by passing through the rainbow - we then decided to head for food! Enjoy burgers and pizza for the kids is considered of course one of the best kind of junk food one could have :-) to make sure we end the day in just the right way.
Don't you think that trails are always considered the best trips one could go on out there? I believe so, it always gives you the feeling that you are on a mission which you are supposed to finish and find its end - it is even much more exciting when this trail and mission happens to be in the forest or in a garden, you end up surrounded by green areas and walking through trees to reach your destinations.
We have been on different trips in Northern Ireland before which are related to trails and finding things in them - not just the Fairytale Forest in Portadown - but we have also been to the Narnia Trail in Rostrevor which is related to The Chronicles of Narnia story that was written by the famous British writer, CS Lewis, and which is considered a famous book series in Ireland that was used in TV, radio, and shows (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkoFJbiQqPA).
It was not only about the Narnia Trail that we took the kids to and enjoyed - we even visited more than once and also passed by the CS Lewis Square in Belfast that tells more about the writer (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QDltVJ13jE) - but we also managed to go to other trails which included the Gruffalo Trail in Colin Glen Park and which is taken from The Gruffalo book where the kids kept searching for the different characters and loved to take different photos by them as well (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-VljQfXps0).
In addition to those which are considered our favorite, we have also been to George Best Trail (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDTRKHoWGv0), we have also been to the Van Morrison Trail (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGKbNy3sRSE), and we also visited the Limavady Sculpture Trail (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfnHiuGHEnE).
Those different events which are held from one time to another are considered our favorite because they always turn out to be different and succeed in getting all the family members happy about spending some time there - we were happy having the kids playing around and we enjoyed the good walk around the park as well.
What was the one trail you attended before and enjoyed that you would even go to again if you got the chance to?
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