[Jeff Head]

If they use the same path/route they used before, staging at Ascension Island. Not bizarre at all. Of course they could use the Canal and go the other way, either the Suez or the Panama, but that adds a lot of distance and does not provide as good a staging.

[Bender2]

Re My 162 post: ...what Bizarro World map you are using that makes the Brits have to go past Venezuela to get to the Falklands?

Your 163 post: If they use the same path/route they used before, staging at Ascension Island. Not bizarre at all. Of course they could use the Canal and go the other way, either the Suez or the Panama, but that adds a lot of distance and does not provide as good a staging.

Guess the continents must have moved... since I took geography back in the 1950s...

But... as I recall:

Going from the UK to Ascension Island and on to the Falklands does not cross Venezuela...

What is that, a FedEx or whatever commercial, where the older guy tells the young guy to put a pin in China on the map? And the young guy starts at Greenland?

That's the way... I am feeling here!