Easter in the UK

I don’t know too much about the Easter celebrations over here in Spain apart from the processions for La Semana Santa and “los penitentes” that wear the big pointed hat on their heads. Anyway, the celebrations back home in the UK are very different to those here. There aren’t really any big parties or festivals for Easter and we definitely don’t have anything similar to los penitentes. Easter in the UK mainly involves chocolate, chocolate and more chocolate! Back home we have a tradition of giving people chocolate Easter eggs on Easter Sunday and the next few days are spent eating as much chocolate as possible without being sick. My personal favourites are the Malteser eggs!!

The egg is used as the symbol of Easter as it represents fertility and rebirth which symbolises the resurrection of Jesus Christ. However, despite Easter being a religious festival, the egg is also associated with ancient pagan festivals. I have put a link below explaining some of the origins surrounding the "Easter Egg".

It is said that there is an Easter Bunny who brings chocolate eggs to children, much like Santa bringing presents to people at Christmas. Often, he will hide the eggs around the house or in the garden which then leads to Easter Egg hunts which is an excellent game (or eggs-cellent if you want a really bad Easter joke!) to keep the kids busy on Easter Sunday.
Here's a fun video of a genuine sighting of the Easter Bunny!!

Another tradition in the UK is to decorate hard boiled eggs and then roll them down a hill. The aim of this game is to see whose egg can roll the furthest without breaking. Sounds like a lot of hard work decorating the eggs just to break them later but it is a lot of fun and there are many Easter Egg Rolling competitions all over the country. 


This site offers more information about the origins of many Easter traditions and there is a good video if you want to learn more! It focuses more on Easter in America but the traditions are almost identical to ours.
http://www.history.com/topics/holidays/easter-symbols

And here you can see many photos of beautifully decorated eggs. Mine unfortunately never look this good!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/02/easter-eggs-history-origin-symbolism-tradition_n_1392054.html?slideshow=true#gallery/218226/0