Travelling Frogs are in France at the moment, and today the ‘cloches volutes’, the flying bells, have come back!

In the local tradition, church bells don’t ring between Good Friday and Easter Sunday. Instead they fly to the Vatican to be blessed by the Pope, and come back on Saturday night, loaded with presents (yes, you guessed it, mainly chocolate!) ready to peal joyously on Easter Sunday. And when the bells ring, or when someone calls ‘les cloches sort passees’, that’s the signal for the start of the Easter egg hunt…