Some thoughts on the time we spent in the Falklands...
We arrived (January 2007) towards the end of summer.
The people and the country are both beautiful.
Weather was been good, perhaps a little windy by UK standards... you
learn to park facing the wind, or the doors get ripped off the car.
We covered the length and breadth of the Islands -
possibly seen more than most Islanders do in their lifetime.
Here are some pictures that reflect what we
think is the spirit of the idlands when we were there - below is the
memorial to the
sailors who died on HMS Coventry in 1982, which is on Pebble Island.
The memorial looks out over the Atlantic, towards the spot where the
Destroyer was sunk; we really haven't captured how moving this is.
Maybe you'd have to be here, and be shown this by a Falklander who
tells the story, to complete the experience.
I've not posted pictures of the abbatoir, but for more outdoors
pictures - see the appropriate buttons above!
To get the real feel for this, you need to be at the top of a windswept hill...