Winter Wonders

When: November 25 till January 1
Where: Brussels, Belgium
Cost: Free; ice-skating €6 per hour, children €4 per hour

Brussels’ colossal Winter Wonders event will make you forget any eurozone woes in the EU’s bureaucratic capital. It features one of the continent’s best Christmas markets, with around 240 wooden chalets dotted around the Place Sainte Catherine and the Grand Place.

A giant ice-skating rink, street entertainment, baroque roundabouts, and a big wheel keep the young and young-at-heart entertained, as well as a toboggan run and a 40-metre ‘ice monster’.

Make sure you look up as you explore Winter Wonders; Brussels’ Grand Place is illuminated like a giant Christmas tree and there are also sound and light shows throughout, with lights coming up from the pavement and through coloured posts which lead visitors from the Place Sainte Catherine to the Marché aux Poissons.

Fly to Brussels direct with Air Malta.

For more information visit www.visitbrussels.be/bitc/BE_en/minisite_winterwonders.do.