Provence Tayl's

Friday the 1st June - 19 months after seeing the land our dreams are starting to come true! The first real day of work - the Olive trees we learnt are potentially over 100 years old. Dominique arrived at 8.30am and proceeded to reduce them to 'stumps' before up rooting them, and then transporting them to a temporary 'ditch' where they will stay until we can position them next year after construction.


The most important part of a French mans tool kit is shown here - they arrived with 2 large vans on the back of which were the diggers,chipper, chainsaws,etc but it is none of these that are important! The Cool/lunch box is the most important tool of the day!

And this is all that's left of 21 Olive Trees - worth abt 11 Thousand Euros! Some how I don't think we will be picking many Olives from these this year!