Easter Eggs

Traditionally hand-painted eggs for Easter are displayed for sale at a fair in central Sofia. © Oleg Popov / Reuters

Traditionally hand-painted eggs for Easter are displayed for sale at a fair in central Sofia. © Oleg Popov / Reuters

A chocolate easter egg is pictured in Antwerp. © Thierry Roge / Reuters

A chocolate easter egg is pictured in Antwerp. © Thierry Roge / Reuters

Chocolate easter eggs made by Belgian chocolate maker Dominique Persoone are pictured in Antwerp. © Thierry Roge / Reuters

Chocolate Easter eggs made by Belgian chocolate maker Dominique Persoone are pictured in Antwerp. © Thierry Roge / Reuters

Jozsef Koszpek displays eggs with miniature metal horseshoes based on an old Hungarian tradition one week before the Easter holidays in Szekesfehervar. © Laszlo Balogh / Reuters

Jozsef Koszpek displays an egg decorated with miniature metal horseshoes in Szekesfehervar. © Laszlo Balogh / Reuters

Jozsef Koszpek decorates an egg with miniature metal horseshoes based on an old Hungarian tradition one week before the Easter holidays in Szekesfehervar. © Laszlo Balogh / Reuters

A chimpanzee looks at a mock Easter egg at its enclosure in the Buenos Aires zoo. © Enrique Marcarian / Reuters

Children paint eggs for Easter in Tbilisi. © David Mdzinarishvili / Reuters

Cvitkovic decorates an Easter egg with bee wax in Adlesici,. © Srdjan Zivulovic / Reuters

Decorated Easter eggs are seen hanging from a tree in Adlesici. © Srdjan Zivulovic / Reuters

Decorated Easter eggs are displayed in Adlesici. © Srdjan Zivulovic / Reuters

People look at a sphere sculpture made from Easter eggs on the day of its unveiling at Kievo-Pecherskaya Lavra cathedral in Kiev. © Konstantin Chernichkin / Reuters

A sphere sculpture made from Easter eggs is on display on the day of its unveiling at Kievo-Pecherskaya Lavra cathedral in Kiev. © Konstantin Chernichkin / Reuters

Lebanese Christian children show off their painted eggs they received in celebration of Easter after an Easter service at St. George church. © Jamal Saidi / Reuters

A child passes by a 3 metre high Easter egg coloured by local artists on Easter Sunday in central St.Petersburg. © Alexander Demianchuk / Reuters

A Kosovo Serb peels an Easter egg during an Orthodox Easter service in a fire-gutted Serbian church in Mitrovica. © Hazir Reka / Reuters

A woman paints a giant Easter egg at a traditional Easter market at the Old Town Square in Prague. © David W Cerny / Reuters

Easter eggs are seen at an Easter market in the western Austrian city of Innsbruck. © Dominic Ebenbichler / Reuters

Colourful painted Easter eggs are displayed at a local Easter market in Bad Toelz. © Michael Dalder / Reuters

Colourful painted Easter eggs are displayed at a local Easter market in Bad Toelz. © Michael Dalder / Reuters

Colourful painted Easter eggs are displayed at a local Easter market in Bad Toelz. © Michael Dalder / Reuters

Easter eggs are seen at an Easter market, in the western Austrian city of Innsbruck. © Dominic Ebenbichler / Reuters

Traditionally hand painted Easter eggs are on display for sale in the eastern German village of Schleife. © Tobias Schwarz / Reuters

Easter eggs are seen on a Easter Market in the western Austrian city of Innsbruck. © Dominic Ebenbichler / Reuters

Painted eggs for use as traditional Easter decoration are on display at an Easter market in Vienna. © Heinz-Peter Bader / Reuters

Drilled Easter eggs are displayed in Vrhnika. © Srdjan Zivulovic / Reuters

Painted eggs for use as traditional Easter decoration are on display at an Easter market in Vienna. © Heinz-Peter Bader / Reuters

Painted eggs for use as traditional Easter decoration are on display at an Easter market in Vienna. © Heinz-Peter Bader / Reuters

Traditionally hand painted eggs for Easter are displayed for sale during a Palm Sunday fair at the Village Museum in Bucharest. © Bogdan Cristel / Reuters

Traditionally hand painted eggs for Easter are displayed for sale at a fair in Sofia. © Stoyan Nenov / Reuters