After the Easter holidays
After 4 days off on Easter, Romanians resumed work on Wednesday
Mihai Pelin, 11.04.2018, 13:12
Easter was an occasion for celebration for the more than 250 million Orthodox and Greek-Catholic Christians around the world.
They attended the Easter Vigil, and religious leaders sent out messages of peace and reconciliation. Patriarch Kirill of Moscow performed the Easter Liturgy Mass in the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow, in the presence of president Vladimir Putin.
In Cairo, Egypt, the Coptic Christians, the oldest Christian community in the Middle East, attended the service led by their spiritual leader, Pope Theodore II of Alexandria. In Bucharest, the Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, Daniel, called on Christians to share the joy of the celebration with the people close to them.
As it happens every year, a lot of Romanians took part in the religious services performed in churches and monasteries around the country and abroad. For most Romanians, Easter also stands for families reunited around the table for the Easter Sunday lunch, with painted eggs, Easter cheesecake, lamb steak and wine. Many Romanians who live and work abroad have actually come home to be with their loved ones these days.
Others, however, chose to spend the 4-day holiday in seaside or mountain resorts, or abroad. Accommodation was impossible to find these days in any of the resorts in the Prahova Valley area, where the great attraction was the generous snow layer on ski slopes. Valea Dorului, Valea Soarelui and Valea Pelesului were the most sought-after ski slopes in the region.
The Easter travel packages, which included accommodation in a 3-star hotel or boarding house, breakfast and the Easter dinner, cost around 110 euros in Sinaia. Guesthouses in Moldavia, Bukovina and Maramures also welcomed those who came to discover the beauty of those regions and the local traditions. Those Romanians in the Diaspora who could not come home for Easter still celebrated Romanian-style, with traditional food sent over by their families.
Now the holiday is over, and people came back to work. Parliament prepares to work hard in the coming days, when new debates are scheduled regarding the Criminal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure. Also, the special parliamentary committee investigating the dismantling of the Protection and Anti-Corruption Directorate General within the Justice Ministry, has convened for fresh hearings. Students and pupils are back in school, until June 16 when summer holiday begins.
