Easter in Latvia.

The most important thing in every family is to colour

eggs. We would like to explain and show some ways how

latvians do that.

You will need to get some white eggs and a large

quantity of dry onion skinsor. This will produce a variety

of colurs on eggs, depending on how long they will

have been immersed in the

onion skin mixture: short

immersion will give you a

light yellow, whilst the longer

you'll keep the eggs

immerssed, the more brown

they'll get.

Usually there are two approaches to decorating eggs.

You can tie leaves or flowers or rice to eggs and then

immerse them in the onion skin mixture. This will leave

you with a lighter pattern on the egg where the object

was attached.

Other approach is to boil the egg in the onion skin

mixture and then to sratch the pattern into the egg.

Both of these approaches will take some time but when

done together with friends or family, is a great way of

making your own traditions.

Usually the eggs are coloured the day before Easter, so

that on Easter morning first thing you could have is an egg

fight. You simply choose an egg and knock it against

someone else's egg. The one whose egg stays intact, is said

to live the longest. These eggs have also been used to

exchange between families and

friends in that way mulitplying the

goodwill around.

So, this is one of the way Latvians are celebrating

Easter. Do you have any traditions on Easter that are still

practised?