Picking olives in Crete
Sans Peur
Grete & Fred Vithen
Thu 26 Nov 2015 18:47
What
an experience!
Pauline and Robin
(+70)
,
"old" very experienced
sailors,
moored
in
M
arina Ag Nikolaos for many years. Last adventure was crossing the Atlantic and then ending in Australia where they sold their 17m home made steel boat.
Time for
new projecs
t;
I
n England, a 300-years old house that they are now renovating and in Crete they bought a small olive grove.
They love to hike and they are the two "pioneers" who have found all our nice walks around the island which we all are enjoing so much.
Their
olive grove consists of
240 olive trees
and an
old caravan in the middle of nowhere.
R
ight now it's time for harvesting. And they
need a couple of hands to do the heavy work.
Is there any volunteers from the marina ?? Of course there are, p
eo
ple lined up and it was a very pleasant experience.We harvested 1312 kg, in four days, the result was 230 liters of
high quality
olive
oil, Extra Virgin Oil
.
We will n
ever complain about the price of olive
oil again.
It is very hard labor
behind every liter. About one liter per tree.
It was fun and interesting to be part of this
experience.
The last day ended up with BBQ, beers, wine, raki ... many laughters ... and even singalong. Jamas!
s
