I am spending Easter in Cyprus. It is the first time for years that the Greek Orthodox Easter and ours coincide so it's possible to make some useful comparisons. In Britain all the talk this Easter every Easter is of jetting away. Nobody leaves Cyprus at Easter. On the contrary, Easter is the time when expats do their best to come home.
Easter is a time for the whole family to get together.
The churches have been bursting since Maundy Thursday and restaurants and shops not directly involved with the tourist trade have been kept firmly shut. Today, Easter Sunday, is a day of national celebration. How different from our own country. The other day one of our newspapers talked about the 'run-up' to Easter. In the future, I suspect, historians will spend a great deal of energy discussing how it came about that a country which once took religion very seriously ended up with virtually none.