Happy Easter!

Rabbits soft and cuddly
Baby chickens, too.
Easter eggs for baskets
White and pink and blue.
Easter cards of greeting,
Music in the air,
Lilies just to tell us
It's Easter everywhere.

/Easter Everywhere by JS Bach/

Easter Eggs

The tradition of Easter eggs comes from an old Slavic custom dating back to pagan times. The best known example of them is the Ukrainian pysanka decorated using a wax-resist technique. I wanted to try something different this year, so I created a bunch of decoupaged eggs, applying tiny cutouts from pretty paper napkins to the undyded, white eggs.

Happy Easter

At Easter in Hungary, spring is just exploding:
the birds are chirping and the flowers are blooming.
Most of the folks eat cooked ham with a slice of sweetbread,
some horseradish and cooked eggs whose shell they've painted red.

Then, on Easter Monday, boys visit the girls they know,
recite a short poem and sprinkle them with cologne.
In return, they get an egg that is kept for a while,
this is an old folk custom followed since a long time.

Easter bread-types all around the world:
Austria Osterpinze
Croatia Uskrsna pogača
Finland Paasiaisleipa
Greece Tsoureki
Hungary, Upper Franconia Hefezopf
Poland, Ukraine, Slovakia Paska
Russia, Serbia Kulich
Spain Bollo de hornazo

Easter Fair

The Easter Fair on Vörösmarty Square is organized as part of the Budapest Spring Festival. Throughout the weeks before Easter, one can enjoy craft and produce stalls, performances and dance lessons. I purchased all the Eater cards there from the Budapest-based Bomo Art and had a "light" lunch of pompos (Hungarian pizza) and a mug of mulled wine. Well, the extra energy is absolutely needed when the clocks are advanced an hour ahead at the beginning of the Daylight Saving Time (here it is 28th March) and an hour of precious sleep is lost, right?