With an Italian great-grandfather, Jules had chosen to study Italian along with French at university and decided to take a year out before study in order to do so. After spending 3 months in the North of Italy, where she became fluent in the language, she travelled down to Positano on the Amalfi coast in South Italy to work the summer there, staying with family friends. And this is where they met, originally in 1991, but it was at the end of 2005 when they met up again in Italy; older, wiser and more mature! By the end of 2006, Stefano had moved to England and, after a variety of different jobs, he decided to try and sell his Italian food and a few varieties of olives at local markets. Things progressed and a few years later Jules joined the company full-time, leaving her job as secondary school teacher of Modern Foreign Languages in January 2014.