Easter Car Hire Egg-scursions
Easter just got sweeter. Wherever you plan to spend the festival, you’ll find Easter car hire provides you with infinitely more ways to celebrate. Most people will be familiar with the traditions of the Easter Bunny, the decorating of Easter eggs and egg hunting, however, travelling through Europe with Argus Car Hire, you’ll discover a cracking range of interesting Easter customs.
In Finland, Sweden and Denmark, children dress as witches and collect candy door to door in exchange for catkin or willow branches, while in the north west of England and Northern Ireland, decorated Easter eggs are rolled down steep hills.
In eastern regions of the Netherlands ‘Paasvuur’, (Easter fires) are lit on Easter day at sunset. Easter fires known as ‘Osterfeur’ also burn on the same day in Northern Germany. Meanwhile the central European countries of Hungary Slovakia and the Czech Republic carry out their unique customs on Easter Mionday. Following local legend, males traditionally strike females with colourfully decorated willow rods so that that they’ll be blessed with good health and beauty for the next year. In exchange, females present males with a coloured egg or small amount of money.
Spain’s Easter celebrations are particularly vibrant. Most towns have their own celebrations that are specific to their region. The city of Seville in Andalucia has by far the brightest festivities, with a total of 52 different religious groups taking part in colourful parades, while the locals of Catalonia indulge in specially decorated chocolate cakes called ‘La Monas’. Whatever way you choose to mark Easter let Argus Car Hire take you there.
Written by F.H
