One of the most beautiful features of the Amadeus campus is the olive tree alley, a walkway of some 160 yards that is, as the name implies, bordered by some magnificent olive tress, some of them quite old. Several months ago, the trees began to look different: they lost their leaves or failed to grow new ones. In short, it became clear that something was wrong. Experts were called in to diagnose the problem; it turns out that our olive trees are sick, attacked by some vicious fungus, and some are already beyond help. Everything is being done to save the remaining trees: the roots have to be exposed and treated with various chemicals, and I’ve even seen injections being administered with scary looking syringe-like tools. Let’s hope all this works...