With the Game of Thrones Season 5 finale looming, I headed to Belfast, Northern Ireland on a rainy morning to take a day-long Game of Thrones tour. I had only heard of these tours recently, and there are several out of Dublin or Belfast. The one I chose was highly rated, and visits some of the Winterfell locations at public parks and landmarks.
I arrived at the coach stop to find 27 people in the 22-45 age range, the show’s target audience, though not everyone had seen the show (including my friends who came with me), and we set off on time.
Damian, our guide, is also an extra in the show and is an expert in swordplay. He began the tour by asking and answering questions about the program and its characters as we viewed clips from the show and behind the scenes/FX profiles on a small TV screen. As an avid reader of the books, he offered his own theories about the future of the story, which can be debated by the more obsessive fans who take the tour.
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