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Old 10th Dec 2017, 12:15
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Agree with your comments, Captivep, but having visited Ushuaia last year to join a boat to the Falklands and Antarctica, the big sign at the port gates insisting "No Anchorage to the British Pirates" was an indication that things hadn't been forgotten, as was the memorial to Argentina's war dead at Ushuaia airport. Oh, and a condition of Argentinian port access for our Russian flagged vessel was that an Argentine observer be carried on board to ensure that rules weren't transgressed. So the on board lecture on the history of the Falklands tactfully stopped at 1981. I was able to bring our colonial cousins up to speed on the 1982 war in the bar afterwards. I realised afterwards that I had stayed in the same Ushuaia hotel where Clarkson had his run-in with the locals.
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