Twinbus Travel Agency - travel through Easter

Romania, Poland, Portugal,

Cyprus, Spain, Greece

Palm Sunday Dyed and painted eggs

Blessed by priest traditional food

Going to the Church for the ceremony with all the family Easter Monday- Wet Monday

( young men and bys spray perfume on the girls and

women )

Different date for Easter time- early may this year-

same as Greece and Cyprus

Romania

Cornelia- Brasov

Dyed and painted eggs.

Sponge cakes and ,,pasca,,brought to

the church to be blessed and then eaten at Easter

Going to the Church with the family at

night , at Easter Eve, taking light to bring it

home and to the graves of our deads.

Valy Romania

Painting eggs Making palms, celebrating

Palm Sunday Going to the church with

the basket full of food to be blessed

Celebrating Easter breakfast with family, eating blessed food.

Easter Monday is called Wet Monday (after the

practice of men and boys pouring water on women

and girls)

Poland

Jolanta - Poland

Portugal

Traditions of Holy Week. Painting eggs Making cards

Alice - Portugal

Spain Processions Palm Sunday Paint eggs (in school)

Maite - Spain

Greece Attending the evening mass during all

days of the Holy Week. Celebrating Palm Sunday and eating fish. Eating only

vegetables and legumes during the whole week. Crucifixion of Christ on Holy

Thursday evening and dying eggs red in the afternoon. Decorating the Epitaph

with flowers on Holy Thursday night and taking it around the town on Holy Friday evening.

Going to church on Holy Saturday evening and lighting big candles at 00:00

with the holy light that comes from the Church of Resurrection in Jerusalem.

Celebrating Easter Sunday with the whole family. Visiting our villages and

eating roast lamb.

Stavroula - Greece

Easter is the greatest holiday in the Orthodox Church. Holy Week is dedicated to church-going and to baking. Palm Sunday -Olive leaves are put

into pillow-case-like sacks which are taken to church; there they are kept for forty days after

which they can be used for incense burning. On Thursday most women do their Easter baking

of "flaounes", a kind of cheese cake found in Cyprus Eggs are dyed as well. Traditionally they

are dyed red with a special root called "rizari"žHolly Thursday commemorates the Last

Supper of Jesus Christ with the Apostles. Good Friday begins with everyone taking flowers to church so that the young girls can decorate the

"Epitafios" ~ Holy Sepulchre On Saturday evening everyone goes to church with a candle. When the priest proclaims that

"Christ has risen", all candles are lit and everyone greets everyone else with "Christos anesti"

~Christ has risen, to which the other answers "Alithos anesti" ~ Indeed He has risen Everyone

celebrate Easter Sunday with their family

Cyprus

George Cyprus