Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Arrived Falkland Islands Sat mid afternoon.  Stayed Darwin House, exceedingly great. Fantastic hosts, Lorraine & Alan.  Great food, v nice place, great tour of 1982 war battle sites, and running history, background, and details.  Just up my alley.  This part of F.I. ate just like NW Texas, low rolling hills, and very dry.  No trees, space vegetation.  Tour on Sunday great except host Alan didn't control the weather, as a good host ought (uck, uck)  the sleet was as bad as on Cape Horn when I was up there, and the winds were tornado-ish.  The Argentina didn't seem well prepared for the was, and the officers treated the enlisted guys extremely poorly.  The F. I. are emotionly very British, and didn't, don't want to be Argentian or speak Spanish.... The feelings in Argentina and here are exactly the same but in reverse. Some of the soldiers and pilots on the Argentian side were very brave, heroic but not most.  Morale for the enlisted Argentian was thru the floor.  Great book to read is 76 Days.  Had snow three times, one inch, then it melts off quickly.  Temps here are never very high or surprisingly very low ( in the 30's to the 60's. summer or winter).  Just windy, quite cool, damp, misty a lot.  Have a tour about was events here near Stanley tomarrow.  Then Thursday it's the Queen's birthday, so a big parade, it is a holiday here.  No pics wifi expensive, will do them when I get to S. Africa on Monday.  Meanwhile, on Sat I fly to Santiago Chile, then Buneos Aires, and a couple of hours later, to London England.  16 hour layover there, then Sun evening fly to Capetown S. Africa, so will try to blog once more this week, then again in Capetown.  Being so isolated, everything is expensive here, especially the wifi.  So good-by til I get hopefully free hotel wifi in Capetown.

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