It was an offer I couldn’t refuse. What could go wrong? 22 December 2020 • 9:57am With 20 hours of daylight at our disposal, we were free to wander unaccompanied to the penguin rookeries and walk on the white-sand beaches Credit: Getty It was an offer I couldn’t refuse, even though it meant spending Christmas 1981 away from home. Could I lead a small group of Americans to Argentina and the Falkland Islands? The tour operator knew that my husband George and I had spent a few months in both places in 1974, but this time it would be in comfort, with a week in the Falklands, mostly on New Island, part-owned by the naturalist-artist Ian Strange, and a week in Argentina ending up with Christmas in Ushuaia.