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...

Below, Surf Bay - 5 minutes up the road from where we lived.
There were often Commersons dolphins playing here - they ride the surf into the beach.
Prevailing wind is off the shore; that helps hold the surf up and sometimes you can see the dolphins just behind the vertical face of the wave, as if in an aquarium.
As you can see here, the wind can blow the top off the waves - mini-rainbows everywhere when the sun shines.

Who needs to go to the Caribbean for white beaches!
Below is Yorke Bay, just to the north.

When we were there, this was mined - the penguins aren't heavy enough to set the mines off. They've cleared the mines now but still keep people off.