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Come Inside... => The Commons => Topic started by: Snoopy on December 14, 2008, 05:12:48 PM
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Pound 'buying less than a Euro'
The falling value of sterling means some people are getting less than a euro for every pound when changing money, The Observer suggests.
After commission and handling fees were charged, customers at some airports got just 197.13 euros for £200 on Saturday.
Last week sterling fell close to 1.11 euros - but the commercial rate obtained by tourists is usually lower.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7782234.stm
Well Gordon seems to have achieved his ambition. evil:
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We went away last weekend and the hotel in Pafos was buying £1 for €1.07... eeek:
Needless to say we are bringing Euros back to the UK and I bought my new Blu Ray player in Euros.... whistle:
See also:
http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/
See the poll in the bottom right hand corner - I voted 'before Christmas'...
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Spain is turning out to be very expensive evil:
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Spain is turning out to be very expensive evil:
What are you getting for your Pound like...?
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No rock for a start.
It's a free trip paid for by Mrs Nick's employers FFS ~ how can it be expensive?
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No rock for a start.
It's a free trip paid for by Mrs Nick's employers FFS ~ how can it be expensive?
Breakages probleee noooo:
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They are paying for her, not the rest of us. Incidentals (lunch, coffee, tram fares) mount up alarmingly. I have Euros with me but am working on the basis of 1:1 conversion
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Tram Fares? What happened to the "Hire Car"
As for Lunches, coffees etc surely you would have those at home anyway ~ so no extra expense there.
You are having a cheapo holiday in Spain whilst we are all stuck here.
I'm sorry but sympathy is off this week evil:
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Tram Fares? What happened to the "Hire Car"
As for Lunches, coffees etc surely you would have those at home anyway ~ so no extra expense there.
You are having a cheapo holiday in Spain whilst we are all stuck here.
I'm sorry but sympathy is off this week evil:
Yes, count yourself lucky. Many Brits would have had to tire themselves out mugging old ladies and earning ASBOs to get a trip like that. evil:
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Tram Fares? What happened to the "Hire Car"
As for Lunches, coffees etc surely you would have those at home anyway ~ so no extra expense there.
You are having a cheapo holiday in Spain whilst we are all stuck here.
I'm sorry but sympathy is off this week evil:
Christ you are grumpy! Mrs Nick is the only one insured for the car and has been using it for werk. The Boy and I get around on trams!
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Not grumpy at all ~ just speaking as I find.
You were the one doing the complaining ~ you could have stayed at home
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Not grumpy at all ~ just speaking as I find.
You were the one doing the complaining ~ you could have stayed at home
Yes you are. We ALL are, unless you're ill of course....or a bloody wumman....or me on a rare good day that I never have. Angry9:
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I'm never grumpy... angel1
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No rock for a start.
It's a free trip paid for by Mrs Nick's employers FFS ~ how can it be expensive?
Breakages probleee noooo:
Holiday insurance more likely. If you ring up one of the large insurance companies and pretend to be Nick looking for a quote you start a mass panic in their call centre. Apparently its the financial equivalent of the 4 minute warning. whistle: