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Stories for May 20th 2001

• Sunday, May 20th 2001 - 21:00 UTC

  Of garden gnomes and penguins

  Back in 1983, when I was the FT's Buenos Aires correspondent, I wrote about my 14,000-mile journey to the Falkland Islands, two ways across the Atlantic, via the RAF base of Brize Norton in Oxfordshire via Dakar, Ascension Island, and an unscheduled emergency landing in southern Brazil.