The Easter Bunny is unheard of here, but Italians don’t skimp on the chocolate, as you can see in this photo.

That’s not a bunny on the left, but a white chocolate replica of an Italian stovetop espresso machine. The lid even opens, although the shopkeeper warned me, ‘Only put cold coffee inside.’ D’oh!

Now for some Easter trivia to enliven your dinner table conversation today:

Norwegian TV stations air crime shows all Easter weekend so that families can spend their evenings solving murder mysteries.

In Finland and Sweden kids dress as witches and go door-to-door, exchanging pussy willows for candy.

In the Czech Republic, men run around spanking women with a special Easter whip called a pomlazka in order to preserve their beauty and fertility. (How does this work? Beats me! har har…) The women may then toss cold water on the guys in retaliation.

And you thought egg-laying bunnies were weird!

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