Easter Skate Eggstravaganza

This weekend is Easter and a four day weekend in Britain with Good Friday and Easter Monday public holidays in the UK.

If you feel like getting some exercise in along with seeing some of central London’s major sites in between eating Easter eggs, why not get along to the Easter Eggstravaganza 2008 a free themed family event that’s taking place all over the weekend and open to all levels of skaters from beginners to advanced.

All the events start in or around Hyde Park including Friday’s Long Good Friday Night Skate, a 15-18 mile skate around London that lasts around 3 hours and starts at 7pm on the eastern end of Serpentine Road in Hyde Park. Saturday sees a day of free drop-in skate classes and workshops taken by qualified instructors where you can learn the basics or pick up some new moves if you’re more experienced.

Sunday has a number of items on the programme, the main one being the 2pm the Fancy Dress Easter Sunday Bunny Stroll, a relaxed 7 mile skate around central London that’s accompanied by a mobile disco and skaters dressed up as some sort of bunny. There’s also a free party with DJs at the Victoria pub in Bayswater just to the north of Hyde Park starting around 7pm.

Easter Monday’s events include more lessons and skating workshops, an Egg and Spoon Race on wheels and the Skate Patrol Treasure Hunt from 1pm-5pm, beginning at the boathouse on Serpentine Road. Fancy dress costumes will be available to hire on the Sunday but if you’re going down you’ll need to bring or hire your own skates or rollerblades.