Falklands adventure

  This weekend twelve of us went to Darwin Lodge (yes, named after Charles…) and spent the weekend walking and enjoying mass dining.   We were organised by the Director of Education – and were each given specific cooking responsibilities. Darwin, and the neighbouring settlement of Goose Green lie on a narrow isthmus of land connecting the mountainous part of East Falkland with Lafonia – the southern flat, and I mean ‘as a pancake’ flat part of East Falkland.      Darwin Lodge is on the coast – however it looks more like being on a lake shore as it is so far inland away from the ‘open sea.’ Our first expedition on Saturday morning, after what can only be described as a ‘stellar breakfast’ – yes I was required to provide it and cook it with Geoff – we headed to Saladero.   This was a fascinating place.   Saladero is the name given to the Department of Agriculture’s national farm – where all manner of agricultural experimentation takes place.   It is also home to the national sheep stud