Fabergé eggs are back in town! My friend who I will call Miss Goldilocks alerted me about this event last week and we had decided to have a competition on who could find the most. This year there's 101 eggs plus an extra 4 1, and not only will they start off in London, but they'll be going through a big UK tour which will run up until Easter! (Dublin seems to be holding there own egg hunt too!)
This time the eggs are in co-operation with Lindt, the Swiss chocolate maker plus Metro, and it's again in aid for Action for Children. XD Yay! There's also a Lindt chocolate prize at the end (I believe it's a whole year of Lindt chocolate!! Not sure what the conditions are though... Haven't read that part yet ¬_¬"). There's also a new mascot named Eggbert (he's the new Where's Wally!) which will be out and about and moved around a lot!
Lucky I had the day off yesterday ^_^ but I was too lazy to go to the launch... I started my journey from 9 am, and I didn't care if it rained, snowed or if a blizzard was on its way, I was still going to find some eggs. :D
I got to Covent Garden at 9.40-ish (boo to morning traffic) and went in via Southampton Way. The first thing I saw was a big Lindt Bunny at the side and thought it was an egg. Nope it's not! Then I saw a lot of eggs!!  |
| Lindt Bunny - not an egg! |
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| The first lot of eggs on show |
In this post I have put the eggs into collages of the areas that they were in... I am a bit too lazy to name them all, but you can find all the names and artists here... |
| In the South Piazza |
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| In South Hall and East Piazza |
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| At West Piazza |
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| Central Avenue |
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| North Hall |
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| North Piazza |
One of the designers / artists was also there. I felt it was like deja vu because I saw a designer / artist last year! |
| Artist Anna Barlow with her egg 'Anticipation of a Thousand Moments' |
Here's a camera crew filming away at us egg hunters, well it's only fair that I took a pic of them too!! ¬_¬ |
| A camera crew that was around |
Now. Here's the Giant Lindt Bunny with loads of tiny Lindt bunny chocolates. Amazing. I want them all!! |
| Woooow!!!! Big Lindt Bunny!!!! |
After this section I took a break and went into Artbox to get myself a nanoblock, which I will blog about another time. I then went around Covent Garden to see if there were any eggs around plus I was Instagramming at the same time. No such luck in finding more, until I went through an alleyway and found the store that the eggs were being held captive in!! ^_^ Quick snap and tweet it to the world which I did a little later...!  |
| I spotted this egg 'This is Not an Egg' before I realised that the rest of the eggs were inside this place!!! |
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The hidden shop of eggs... I think the people there thought I was going
to follow them around! No way. I was there to egg hunt :P |
Afterwards, I went back to the centre, bought myself a map which came with a Lindt chocolate bunny and a pen, all costing £3. I then went around Covent Garden again! But I stopped off at EAT and had a coffee (this is where I did some tweeting). Then about 20 minutes later, I went into the same alleyway and found 3 more eggs and the original version of one of them that was at the North Piazza (so confusing!)... |
| It's up to you to find these ones!! ^_^ |
In total I found 83 eggs. So I'm missing 18 eggs plus the extra 4 1... But it looks like I won against Miss Goldilocks, the others were just hidden away in the shop, and I couldn't take a picture of them all ¬_¬! Buuut I think she'll find the ones that I didn't get to see yesterday. Maybe I should go out egg hunting during the weekend to find the rest. :D
I haven't seen Eggbert yet as well, it's being released today - as I was told yesterday on Twitter! But too bad I'm working today... :(
This is where the eggs are going to be this year...
London Covent Garden 12th February - 17th February
Birmingham 19th February - 25th February
Liverpool 27th February - 5th March
Manchester 7th March - 13th March
Glasgow 15th March - 20th March
London Covent Garden 22nd March - 1st April
