Since 1833 the people of the Falkland Islands have been sure of their British identity, but whether you regard them as a detached part of the British Isles in the South Atlantic, or as a part of South America, that suffers from European delusions, you can be assured of encountering ‘a world of difference’ here. From the minute you arrive, the Falklands offers you total personal security, clean air, friendly people, no crowds, no neon, no fast food, and no stress. All this in surroundings where the vastness of sky is only matched by the distance of the horizon and the eye is constantly captivated by the ever-changing play of light on water and white grass. This is a land where nature is sovereign, and mankind in the minority. Comfortable tourist lodges in remote locations, and holiday cottages on island farms give, to a privileged few each year, incomparable opportunities to see at close quarters some of the millions of seabirds and mammals which breed in the Falklands: black-browed albatross, giant petrels, five kinds of penguin, elephant seals, sea lions, striated caracara, crested caracara, night heron ......... the list goes on. And then there’s the fly-fishing for sea trout up to a record in excess of 20lbs. Direct flights from South America by LanChile, the Chilean national airline, together with the long-running direct RAF service from Brize Norton in Oxfordshire, England make this "world of difference" more accessible than ever before.