The Riff-Raff Element Posted March 11, 2006 Share Posted March 11, 2006 [quote user="SaligoBay"]I'm sure there are worse places![/quote]Heavens yes! North Korea, the Falkland Islands and the KalinigradEnclave come to mind. (There are plenty of others, but I think I'm safewith that selection. Just my luck that someone on this forum will havebeen born on West Falkland and will object to being lumped in withNorth Korea). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teamedup Posted March 11, 2006 Share Posted March 11, 2006 Iceland is a must visit place for me. If I visit no where else on the planet, it is the one place that I have to visit. And I missed out on going recently, which I was rather miffed about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tresco Posted March 11, 2006 Share Posted March 11, 2006 [quote user="jond"] [quote user="SaligoBay"] I'm sure there are worse places![/quote]Heavens yes! North Korea, the Falkland Islands and the Kalinigrad Enclave come to mind. (There are plenty of others, but I think I'm safe with that selection. Just my luck that someone on this forum will have been born on West Falkland and will object to being lumped in with North Korea).[/quote]My dad spent over 2 years on the Falklands. We have some great photos in our family collection, mainly of batteships, destroyers, and penguins (caption 'Penguin, Falkland Islands 1948') with some nice mountains in the background.When the Argentines invaded, my dad would sit glaring at the TV, saying, 'we should bloody well let them have it'. So, if there is a native Falkland Islander here, I stand ready to be flamed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viv Posted March 11, 2006 Share Posted March 11, 2006 According to Wikipedia, the name 'Malvinas' was derived from St Malo. I kid you not. What was the French explorer thinking of? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peret Posted March 11, 2006 Share Posted March 11, 2006 Falklands in French is "Les Malouines" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russethouse Posted March 11, 2006 Share Posted March 11, 2006 Oh come on - one of my oldest friends, in every sense , is a Falkland Islander. I have always thought it would be a great place to visit. Many people comment on France being like the UK 30 years ago, I think the Falkland Islands is even further back.......bit chilly and windy though........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tresco Posted March 12, 2006 Share Posted March 12, 2006 [quote user="Russethouse"]Oh come on - one of my oldest friends, in every sense , is a Falkland Islander. I have always thought it would be a great place to visit. Many people comment on France being like the UK 30 years ago, I think the Falkland Islands is even further back.......bit chilly and windy though........[/quote]Gay, where does your friend live now?.[6] LOL, I can't believe it Gay, you couldn't be a flamer if you tried! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Riff-Raff Element Posted March 12, 2006 Share Posted March 12, 2006 [quote user="Russethouse"]Oh come on - one of my oldest friends, inevery sense , is a Falkland Islander. I have always thought it would bea great place to visit. Many people comment on France being like the UK30 years ago, I think the Falkland Islands is even furtherback.......bit chilly and windy though........[/quote]OK OK - not the Falkland Islands (though from what I've heard "windy"is a bit mild. Appearantly the sheep there have evolved particularlyshort legs and gripping feet as defence against being swept into thesea by the unrelenting gales.) How about...Kyrgyzstan? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaligoBay Posted March 12, 2006 Share Posted March 12, 2006 [quote user="jond"][How about...Kyrgyzstan?[/quote]Have you read The Glass Mountain by that German bloke? How he keeps going on about the woman's narrow Kirgiz eyes. It's about all I remember from it, except it was generally quite depressing.Kirgizise, is that a neologism? I'll go and look, I could copyright it for my very own use and earn LOTS of dosh. And me earning lots of dosh would definitely count as a miracle! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Riff-Raff Element Posted March 12, 2006 Share Posted March 12, 2006 [quote user="SaligoBay"][quote user="jond"][How about...Kyrgyzstan?[/quote]Have you read The Glass Mountain by that German bloke? How he keeps going on about the woman's narrow Kirgiz eyes. It'sabout all I remember from it, except it was generally quite depressing.Kirgizise, is that a neologism? I'll go and look, I couldcopyright it for my very own use and earn LOTS of dosh. Andme earning lots of dosh would definitely count as a miracle![/quote]Thomas Mann? Or was that "The Magic Mountain" - I should DEFINATELYcopyright "Kirgizise" if I were you. It's the sort of word that"Dubbya" could use when speaking about the Middle East or some such.Get in there first! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaligoBay Posted March 12, 2006 Share Posted March 12, 2006 [quote user="jond"]Thomas Mann? Or was that "The Magic Mountain" - [/quote]LOL, that's what I meant! That'll teach me to try to deal with German literature before breakfast. Getting my beads and my mountains mixed up in public. [:$] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Debra Posted March 13, 2006 Share Posted March 13, 2006 [quote user="Tresco"]We have some great photos in our family collection, mainly of batteships, destroyers, and penguins (caption 'Penguin, Falkland Islands 1948') with some nice mountains in the background. When the Argentines invaded, my dad would sit glaring at the TV, saying, 'we should bloody well let them have it'. So, if there is a native Falkland Islander here, I stand ready to be flamed.[/quote]No flaming, but I have the same sort of photos from 30 odd years on and my ex mother in law made much the same mutterings while her son, aged 18 and just out of basic training, was over there during the campaign. Along with other mutterings about that English woman trying to make a point because her popularity was slipping and how good Scottish boys shouldn't have been dragged into it (in her eyes it wasn't quite so bad if the English boys were shot). Our kids are much impressed nowadays with photos of Dad next to the penguins, though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coco Posted March 13, 2006 Share Posted March 13, 2006 [quote user="jond"][quote user="SaligoBay"] I'm sure there are worse places![/quote]Heavens yes! North Korea, the Falkland Islands and the Kalinigrad Enclave come to mind. (There are plenty of others, but I think I'm safe with that selection. Just my luck that someone on this forum will have been born on West Falkland and will object to being lumped in with North Korea).[/quote]Not a native but I spent some time there transporting troops from Ascension Island after the airstrip was bombed. (Two girls on a ship with 900 men, not bad ehh?) Apart from the fact that I was wearing a thermal vest, T-shirt, wooly shirt and thick sweat shirt, ordinary tights under thick woolly tights and a very thick denim skirt, I have some photos of me in a beautiful Falkland lanscape with the most fantastic blue skies in the background. Happy memories - I'd love to make a return visit, they are beautiful islands, but I do have to admit, it's a lot bloody colder than north of the Loire. Even so, it was summer time and the local ladies were sporting short sleeve summer dresses!!!! Tough or what!The lock-ins at the local pub were good fun and the mutton-burgers to die for - and I MEAN die for! You don't get too many of those to the heart attack. The grease was unbelievable ..... perhaps that's why they can manage to wear short sleeves in those termperatures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russethouse Posted March 13, 2006 Share Posted March 13, 2006 Round the corner at number 3 actually ! We used to 'share' a cat, it was our cat (we saved its life at no small expense...ungrateful little devil)When we moved here it quickly dscovered that life with her and her husband, both retired, was vastly preferable to life in a household with another cat and two small children. Every other year she would go back to the Falklands for 3 months and the cat returned to us, checking every day that she hadn't returned.My friends sister, nephew and his wife and children have all visited and I have got to know them all. It sounds like a great life to me.......One of the nephews children came over here to qualify as a vet and then went to Australia where she specialises in ..........you guessed it - sheep!Personally I hate the heat, so anywhere hot would be hell to me [:(] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mpprh Posted October 5, 2006 Share Posted October 5, 2006 http://www.the-languedoc-page.com/photos/languedoc-photo-024.htm Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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