Olive trees could be found just about everywhere. In the past, the island had been ruled by the Englishmen. Venetian brought the olive trees to Corfu. The peasants were payed a gold coin of considerable value for each planted olive tree. Other trees became extinct because of extensive exploitation for ship construction.
Olives are harvested during the winter - it's rainy during that part of the year.
First, the grass below the trees is cut. Then, the ground is covered with wide stripes of black plastic net. Over time, the olives fall onto the net and people sweep them for storage. Paxos is a small island to the south from Corfu. There's another even smaller island on the South from Paxos, called Antipaxos, but our boat went only to Paxos.