Spring, in Greece, is the time of year that we celebrate quite an array of Holidays. It all starts with the Season of Apokries or what you would call Carnival and Mardi Gras.
The season of the Great Lent begins with Clean Monday and ends with Good Saturday. It lasts for 7 weeks, including Holy Week for the Greek Orthodox Church, different from the Roman Catholic Church, which celebrates Lent for 6 weeks.
Clean Monday marks the start of the great 48-day fast for Lent or Sarakosti and Holy Week – Megali Eudomada. All this builds up into the feast of Easter, Lambri or Pasca, which is determined by the Julian Calendar and is the most celebrated holiday for the Greek Orthodox people.
Greek traditions and customs vary not only from Island to Island but from village to village as well... Many of these rituals this time of year, are religious ones, closely related or have roots to the teachings of the Greek Orthodox Church.
Kales Apokries, Kali Sarakosti, ke Kalo Pasca (Happy Carnival, Good Lent, and Happy Easter)

Easter Sunday – Lambri – Pasca
Easter Sunday is a holiday that is spent with family, relatives and friends. The meal is usually a communal affair with roasting lamb turning over open pits. Some women will bring pots of Lambriotis. This is a dish of stuffed goat or lamb that has been cooking overnight in the village wood coal ovens.
Tables are decorated with colourful cloths and fresh spring flowers as well as baskets of dyed eggs for Tsoungrisma. Since this is the biggest celebration of the year for the Greeks, there is lots of Ouzo, Retsina and village Suma or Raki (Greek Moonshine) to drink. Of course, no Greek party would be complete without the traditional Bouzouki music and the Greek dancing.
Greeks celebrate life to it’s fullest and Easter is a very good example of that. It would not be uncommon for a tourist couple or passers by to be invited to join in the meal and festivities, as this culture is very generous and open hearted. And even though she probably doesn’t speak your language, you would find some old Greek village woman motioning for you to come and enjoy a glass of Ouzo with her.