When I first used olive oil, I didn't like it at all. It happened decades ago. In my country, Romania, the oil used by everyone for cooking is sunflower oil. I didn't even know that there were other kinds of oils, at one point I found out that there was also olive oil.
Although olive oil was a rarity in Romania, about fifty years ago, I don't know by what miracle there is a bottle in our pantry.
Fifty years ago I was in high school. In the morning I was alone at home, my parents being at work. I wanted to eat french fries, I knew how to prepare some dishes ... french fries, scrambled eggs, tea, not much but enough to have something to eat when the fridge was empty. Well, we fried some French fries in olive oil that I don't know how it got to our pantry.
I didn't like it at all! The taste of the olive oil well soaked in potatoes seemed horrible to me ...
Now I'm a fan of olive oil. I like it in salads, put it on toast, put it on the fish on the stove. Fifty years have passed since the first meeting it.
I saw the first olive tree in 2017, on my first visit to Greece, on the island of Thassos. There were also some trees growing in Romania that I thought were olive trees because they had similar leaves and similar fruits, but they were not. In Thassos, I realized that.
The first olive tree is also the oldest, it is several hundred years old. I don't know how many but definitely many. I found out that there are two thousand-year-old olive trees on the island. Unbelievable!
During our stay on the island of Constanta was the daily walk from Limenaria, the accommodation, and to another resort, Potos, to drink coffee. The four-kilometer road passed through an orchard of olive trees.
There are one million olive trees on the island of Thassos. Unbelievable!
Olive oil, marble, and pine honey are the three main products of this island in the Aegean Sea.
Another richness of the island are the goats. Goats that live free, semi-wild, eat everything that is green, even the leaves of olive trees.
These trees that manage to survive in the summer conditions on the island, at temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius and the lack of precipitation, I think are the most resistant in the world. I think that's the secret to their longevity.
Every year I look forward to walking among the olive trees.
This is my entry for the #monomad challenge.
For #TreeTuesday by 
