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Bringing its lovely foods, concerts and children-friendly games. You could enjoy a series of small concerts, folkdance shows, local Easter foods (milkbread or ”kalacs”, a special braided sweet loaf, which is part of the Easter celebrations, Easter hams, eggs) and more.

What was lovely about this event was the old Hungarian traditions being present, such as egg painting, putting small horse shoes and other small metal objects on eggs (known a “tojas patkolas”), carving wood, pottery, weaving, decorated ginger bread (“mezes kalacs”). Other activities were children making candels (“gyertya martas”), fishing for wooden fish, and others selling some home made crafts, jewellery, pottery.

Although Easter is mostly a family event in Hungary, there are more and more people seeking some family-friendly community event to take part in and celebrate traditional Easter festivities. This festival was a wonderful way to do this, whether you were local or just visiting.

Words and photos by Russell Skidmore for XpatLoop.com
After an extensive career in advertising - as an Art Director & Creative Director in London, Paris and Budapest for leading agencies - Russell transferred the skills and knowledge gained to the development of his own successful company covering wedding, event, PR and portrait photography: www.russell-skidmore-photography.co.uk