How it all begun is a question I am often asked…. Many years ago my late father worked as an agent travelling around Cyprus buying donkeys for the leader of the Turkish Cypriots at the time. The donkeys were exported and sold to the British army in Egypt. With the money he earned he purchased plots of land around the village of Louroujina, my birth place, and planted olive saplings. My Mother and Father nurtured these saplings and when they emigrated to the UK, relatives watched over their olive groves on their behalf. They would send some containers over yearly for our own use and I have fond memories of receiving this liquid gold. They would also sell some to the co-operative who sold it on to Italian companies who repackaged it and sold it as Italian olive oil.