Y’know the way they say there’s no rest for the wicked?  Well I must have been very, very naughty…

While we’re still drawing breath from our weekend in the pink, we’re gearing up for a weekend in the drink – the Maritime Festival is this coming Saturday to Monday:

This is becoming one of the best weekends in the Titanic Quarter annual diary – lovely old boats, loads of activities and attractions around the quayside, and plenty of opportunities to get out there on (or in) the Lagan if that floats your boat!

And this weekend, as well as flinging wide the doors of Dock Cafe (note our extended opening hours: Saturday 11-6, Sunday 2-5 and Monday 11-7) as a little haven of squashy sofas, friendly faces and cracking coffee in the midst of it all, we’re also repeating our fantastically successful experiment from the Giro weekend: running the Dock/We Make pop-up markets in the the unit just along from Dock Cafe at the base the ARC apartments.  Exciting!  So expect plenty more of this kind of malarkey:

So make sure you make a bee-line for the TQ this weekend.  Enjoy the boats and stuff that floats, chill out in the Dock with a nice long lingering cuppa, and then pop in to the pop-ups, get chatting to the stallholders, try a savoury waffle or a pulled-pork bap, have your portrait painted or pick up an upcycled bargain…

Talk about arriving on the map – quite literally in this case: