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Every holiday comes to an end
Farewell
With cousin Captain Kyriakos
The last night
At a local café
Lots of Alpha beer and too much local red wine
It was a noisy party but the table next door were english and used to rowdy 'tourists'. Lots of fun and laughter
They'll be back
Next Morning .....
Liquid Gold
The girls had a few problems firstly because of the weather and then that infuriating
' Greek time '
An early morning appointment became a late afternoon visit and even then we had to wait till the farmers finally started bringing in their days harvest, late afternoon .
5 oclock became 6 oclock and half an hour for pressing became another hour.
But all those ducks finally got thrust in a line and next day the girls picked up 4 5-kilo containers of this year's harvest
Extra fresh
Extra Virgin
That's 40 kilos of Poros olive oil
they're taking it by boat and Uber, train and plane......
Hopefully all the way back home to New Zealand
Walking UP the gangplank
Seems like Danelle is doing all the heavy lifting
And what happened next is another long story.
At Athens airport it was specially packed and off they flew to Istanbul.
Hate to say this, but those darn Turks put a spanner in the works. Turkish Airlines refused to allow the oil, specially packed in wooden boxes, onto their plane. Luckily we're talking about 2 enterprising kiwi lasses here. They managed to get some into their luggage and finally home.
Julie accomplished what she wanted.
Got to see the oil press in operation
And sample the produce
Good luck with the next stage of your new venture
Meanwhile
back on the farm
it was calf castrating time
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Yum Olive Oil - that's the only oil we buy here, so much better for you. Hope your guests had a great time, looks like they did. lol
ReplyDeleteThey really enjoyed themselves!! Happy faces 😄
DeleteMy mother once bought a 5 liter (?), very decorative, can of Olive oil from Greece. When she later opened it back home, she found it contained large green Olives in brine. Her 'Greek' was never much good!
ReplyDeleteThat was a surprise! I hope you all liked olives
DeleteBlogs are great for storing happy memories. You have so many great times and visitors.
ReplyDeleteSo many visitors! The last one for this year, we think, is arriving today. It's cold and wet. At least he's young and can rent a bike
DeleteSounds like someone in Turkey wanted a crate or two of Greek olive oil all for themselves! I did wonder how they were going to get all that oil home.
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