I’m not shy about the fact that I love Easter. It’s a very low key holiday in my non-religious family and we usually just get together to relax and eat delicious food.
My experience of Easter in Australia:
In Australia Good Friday is a public holiday during which people often eat fish. It’s like Christmas Day in that everything is closed; all the supermarkets, restaurants and especially booze shops. Nothing really happens on Saturday except the shops are open again so people who went into an pre-apocalypse style shopping frenzy on Thursday can once again go and buy things (I am one of those people). On Sunday morning children run around maniacally collecting chocolate Easter eggs left by the ‘Easter Bunny’ (aka their parents). People often get together and have a family meal like they would on Christmas Day. Throughout the entire Easter period and the weeks leading up, people eat delicious hot cross buns. If there was any doubt Australia is truly a Christian nation just take a look at the way we get into Easter and Christmas! People also use the four day long weekend to take a mini break, maybe go camping. There are no doubt church services on the Friday and Sunday but I’m the wrong person to ask.
Last year Andy and I were in Mexico in the lead up to Easter and then in Belize, on Caye Caulker Island for Good Friday and Easter Sunday. Being in such strongly Catholic countries (well mostly Mexico, where Catholicism represents about 80% of the population, in Belize it’s about 40%) I was expecting for Easter to be a big deal. But I certainly saw none of the materialistic markers of Easter we have in Australia; no Spring paraphernalia all over the shops, no hot cross buns and certainly no chocolate Easter eggs. On Caye Caulker we couldn’t buy alcohol and I vaguely recall there was some kind of disorganised looking religious procession down the main street. It was the only year I can recall not eating a single Easter egg.
I was fascinated to hear Easter is not a big deal in the US. Do you celebrate Easter? What’s it like where you live? Do you get a public holiday? Do you have chocolate Easter eggs?
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England is gangbusters for Easter, very similar to Aus. Last year we went to Cornwall for the long weekend amd had a brilliant time (had the most delicious fish and chips I’ve ever sampled in the UK) and indulged on too many Cornish pasties. This year we’re going to Wales in a mini camper can, really looking forward to it!
Sounds glorious Lecki! Have a wonderful time x
It’s super similar in NZ too with lots of chocolate and hot cross buns (in supermarket from early Feb on lol). I’m studying in China and I got so depressed today when I realised all the hot cross buns and chocolate I have been missing out on haha. Tried to commiserate with my american friends but they didn’t even know what hot cross buns were! What sad lives they lead 😉
Imagine living your entire life never having a HCB! It’s weird because to me America seems so much for Christian… but I guess not! Thinking of you in Easterless China as I scoff my Easter eggs, I’ve known that pain.