Dominique Giudicelli, 45, was born in Guinea, west Africa, and has lived in Central America, France and the UK. In late 2004, she relocated from Brighton, in south-east England, to the Falkland Islands with her husband Mike and two children. She works for the Falklands government as an environmental planning officer.

I think Britons have an idea that the Falklands are a grey, lost, grim place that was not very well known until the conflict in 1982. Generally, there is more pride here in being British than I've noticed in the UK. For starters, the Queen's birthday is a public holiday. Then there are other signs of "Britishness", such as the telephone boxes and post boxes. We drive on the left too. You can buy Marmite in the stores. In fact, I did not leave the islands for six months after arriving here and it took a trip to Chile for me to "realise" that we were living 8,000 miles away instead of in a part of Great Britain.