Who needs Lapland? Winterval is like walking in a Waterford wonderland
It was a soft job, but someone had to do it – pay a fact-finding visit to Waterford’s Winterval Festival last weekend.The job (child’s work, really) was to report back on the Ferris Wheel highs, and temperature lows, as the city of the ‘sunny south-east ‘ once again drapes itself in rugs and wraps, in off-season festive warmth and hospitality, in the run-up to Christmas.
A decade ago, in Celtic Reindeer times, indulgent Irish parents might have been inclined to take their cosseted offspring to, oh, why not?, to the Arctic Circle and Lapland to meet with Father Christmas in the magical icy wastes. Back then, apparently when ‘everyone was good (for it) all year’ Lapland was the destination du jour, money no object.
