Pancake Day

It has been a year already, and tomorrow it will be, again, Pancake Day. What does that mean? It means that we need to clear our cupboards and finish up all sugars, fats and eggs because Lent starts on Wednesday. 

There are many different recipes but lemon and sugar pancake is the classic one. If you don't care about the diet try it with banana, strawberries and nutella or berries and vanilla ice cream. Yummy!

If you are going to feel guilty because of the extra calories, you can participate in some of the races that will take place in the capital. Parliamentary Pancake Race will start at 10 o'clock while Bankside Pancake Day Race will begin in Borough Market at 12:30. At the same time, the starting signal at The Great Spitalfields Pancake Race will be happening. The participants will go through Brick Lane wearing fancy dresses and holding their crêpes.

So there are 48 days left before Easter Sunday. Are you ready to chose your Easter Egg?

Oxford against Cambridge

Oxford and Cambridge have been training all year to face each other this weekend and today, at 5.55pm, one of the oldest sporting games in the world was celebrated: the 160th Boat Race.

The race is 6.8 Km long and it took place over the River Thames, from Putney to Mortlake. The itinerary is better known as the Championship Course and it has been used since 1845 with only three exceptions. In 1846, 1856 and 1863 the race was held in the opposite direction. 

This year Oxford University won by 11 lengths, the biggest margin of victory since 1973. With this triumph they achieve their fifth victory in seven years. 

Cambridge had the heaviest crew with 2.6kg per man more than Oxford, but they had the youngest team, 24 against 26 years old. Unfortunately, and besides the two teams had strong squads, the two oar of the Cambridge boat hit the seven oar of the Oxford boat. It was a disaster for Cambridge. The oar number two, Luke Juckett, was devastated.

Pancake Day

Are you ready? So grab your frying pan and be prepared for the race because tomorrow, 4th of March, it's Pancake Day. 

Picture: Metro

Also known as Shrove Tuesday, it's always celebrated the day before the start of Lent on Ash Wednesday. It's a good opportunity to use eggs, sugar and milk before the 40 days of fasting. This is an important tradition in United Kingdom but in Ireland, New Zealand, Australia and Canada too.

One of the most important entertainment in Shove Tuesday is the Pancake Races. The tradition say that one woman from Buckinghamshire was so busy doing pancakes in her kitchen that she didn't heard the church bells. When she realised that she was late, she started running to get to the church in time while she was carrying her frying pan and the pancake. Since then, this races are became popular.