With the Olympics rolling into town, 2012 is London’s year. While the games themselves don’t start for another four months, all sorts of happenings are taking place across the city, directly and indirectly linked to this summer’s sporting jamboree.
Easter has provided the inspiration for one such event – a Guinness World Record attempt for the most participated in egg hunt. Taking place until 3 April (started 21 February), The Big Egg hunt sponsored by Faberge has seen more than 200 exquisitely painted and sculptured eggs located across Central London. Each of the two-and-a-half foot tall eggs is hidden in one of 12 “egg zones”.
- Zone 1 – St Christopher’s Place
- Zone 2 – Mayfair
- Zone 3 – Knightsbridge/Sloane Square
- Zone 4 – Green Park
- Zone 5 – St James’s Park
- Zone 6 – Piccadilly
- Zone 7 – Trafalgar Square
- Zone 8 – Carnaby Street
- Zone 9 – Covent Garden
- Zone 10 – Southbank
- Zone 11 – The City
- Zone 12 – Canary Wharf
Londoners and visitors are encouraged to participate, with the lure of a £100,000 Diamond Jubilee Egg going to the winner. Hunters enter by texting a keyword found at the site of each egg to a special competition number. Each text counts as one entry, and the winner will be chosen at random. So hurry, there’s only a week left to enter!
The money raised from the Big Egg Hunt will be split equally between two charities – the Elephant Family and Action for Children.
Elephant Family are concerned with the protection of Asian elephants and their habitats, while Action for Children supports around 50,000 of the UK’s most vulnerable and neglected children through the provision of basic needs and family counseling.
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(Images: Egg Zone Maps – The Big Egg Hunt, Humpty Dumpty – smokeghost)
