Calm Your Beans

If you are a big fan of dressing up then the Easter Bonnet Parade in New York is where you want to be this Easter Sunday! On Easter Sunday, April 8, 2012, the folks lucky enough to find themselves in New York City have the chance to witness the madness of the Easter Bonnets parade. [...]

As you can probably tell everyone in the Calm Your Beans office is getting very excited about Easter, and it’s not just because of the bank holiday and the excuse to eat chocolate…honest! There are plenty of other fun things to do to enjoy the Easter weekend. With games to be played, crafts to make [...]

I’m not really a religious person, but somehow Easter is still one of my favourite holidays. I think this is due to a combination of several important factors: Spring kicking in and the weather improving. A double whammy of bank holidays meaning a 4 day weekend. Spending time with all the family. Giving and getting [...]

As Easter approaches and everyone talks about the religious aspects of the holiday a lot of us are thinking more about eggs. Both the chocolate and rolling varieties. We thought it would be cool to look at different ways of decorating your eggs so you have a truly eggcelent Easter. Some people paint their eggs [...]

Easter is upon us, which means one thing – chocolate! And Jesus raising from the dead – the world’s first zombie perhaps? Back to the chocolate… Nobody takes food more seriously than Parisians; stand in the way of a man in his suave grey suit eyeing the perfect patisserie or a mademoiselle in understated noir [...]

Easter is the key holiday in the Christian calendar but there is much more apart from decorating eggs and churchgoing. We’ve prepared a list of Easter traditions around the world, keep on reading and discover what Northern Spaniards drink during this holiday and why the Norwegians read detective stories in Easter. Spain Easter celebrations in [...]