Free festive family trail across the Barbican to find runaway gingerbread men in shops, with a prize for a completed trail sheet.
The Great Gingerbread Escape Trail kicks off at The Barbican on Saturday 14 November and runs right through to Christmas Eve, 24 December. It's a free family trail that takes you across the Barbican, so it's one of those things you can drop into whenever you're down that way over the next few weeks.
The story behind it is simple enough: Mrs Claus has been baking a batch of Santa's favourite gingerbread men, but the mischievous things have run away and are now hiding in shops all around the Barbican, giggling and trying not to be found. Your job is to track them down. Once you've found them all, you take your completed trail sheet back to the Tourist Information Centre to win a prize and, if you're lucky, a spot on Santa's Good List.
The trail launches as part of the Barbican Christmas Lights Switch-On, which is when the whole area really gets into the spirit. Santa swaps his sleigh for an RNLI boat and makes his arrival across the water at the Barbican Landing Stage, while the Grinch roams the streets and thousands of lights fill Southside Street. If you're heading down for the switch-on, you can pick up the trail and get started straight away.
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It's free to take part, and since it runs until 24 December, there's plenty of time to fit it in around your other Christmas plans. You can pick up your trail sheet at the Tourist Information Centre, 3-5 The Barbican, PL1 2LR, and return it there once you've found all the gingerbread men.
