Celebrate Easter in England
Easter is also celebrated in England. If you want to spend Easter alone or with your family there, you don't have to get used to it, because our neighbors by and large celebrate the festival like us.
Celebrate with our neighbors in England
- In England, too, Easter is celebrated with the family, eggs are sought and people sit comfortably together. Good Friday is called "Good Friday" in England, this day is celebrated differently. This day commemorates the day of Jesus Christ and is a day of fasting in Catholic areas of England.
Easter connects people
- The actual festival starts on Easter Sunday, it is similar to the festival in Germany. With the difference that so-called "hot cross buns" are often eaten. "Hot Cross Buns" are delicious spicy buns with a cross on top. Easter eggs for the children are of course also hidden - in England, Ireland and Scotland this, however, not brought from a hare, but from a rabbit, hence the name "Easter Bunny ".
- Easter Monday follows the two quiet holidays. This day is no longer a religious holiday, but still gives people in England a long weekend. On this day some games like the "Egg Rolling Competitions" take place. In this game, eggs are rolled down a street, the focus is clearly on having fun.
- There is also a celebration in pubs, anyone who has fun and wants to get to know the locals better can take part. If you can keep up, you can party until the shop closes and have the best Easter traditions explained to you on site.
Different customs in England - this is how egg rolling succeeds
Egg rolling is practiced with great enthusiasm at Easter in England. The game doesn't really make sense, but it's a lot of fun and that's what it all comes down to in the end.
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- If you want to take part in egg rolling in England, you first have to boil eggs and then dye them. If you don't feel like it, you can also buy ready-colored eggs.
- The participants of this tradition at Easter all stand on a street. The eggs are then rolled down the street at the same time.
- The winner is the participant whose egg is the first to show a cracked shell. Another variant is rolling on a hill. The Easter eggs are rolled down again at the same time. This time the egg that could travel the furthest way wins.
- Most of the time the game ends with the participants going to the next pub together and having a drink or two.
Additional author: TaylorRose
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