Tuesday 21 April 2015

Celebrating Easter

I have already written about Easter, a year ago.

Both Christmas and Easter are also celebrated by people who just think it's a chance for a family meeting. For them, it's not really connected with religion. Everybody has free time during those celebrations - Easter Sunday and Easter Monday (Wet Monday) are national holidays.

Lent


In the past during Lent people didn't eat meat or fat food. There were other kinds of sweets too. And no partying. Nowadays fasting is a person's choice. One can choose to stop drinking alcohol for 40 days, another to stop eating sweets.

Continue reading about food... and media and shops during Easter.

Thursday 9 April 2015

Spring!

I love winter. I love it when it snow. I prefer the lower temperature. And... there are so many celebrations during winter:

  • Christmas (rather family-oriented), 
  • New Year party (rather party-oriented), 
  • Carnival (lost of parties) 
  • ending with the Fat Thursday (a day of eating Polish doughnuts and other sweets).

Winter ends with drowning Marzanna in river or lakes on the first day of Spring. An old pre-Christian tradition resurrected some times ago.