300 miles from Argentina. 8,000 miles from the the UK – but the Falkland Islands feels very British. Really: it is a cluster of islands populated by fewer than 3,000 people, 99 per cent of whom voted to remain within the UK in their 2013 referendum. read more
Look up the Islands on the net, and you'll find a few books on Falkland cooking somewhere there. Character - the small number of inhabitants need to be handy, flexible, very community-oriented and friendly, and prepared to see their kids off to a European university and extremely rarely return for a visit. read more
The Falkland Islands (/ ˈ f ɔː l k l ə n d /; Spanish: Islas Malvinas, pronounced [ˈislas malˈβinas]) is an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean on the Patagonian Shelf. The principal islands are about 300 miles (483 kilometres) east of South America's southern Patagonian coast, at a latitude of about 52°S. read more