Klarinet Archive - Posting 000075.txt from 1997/08
From: rteitelbaum@-----.com (Rob Teitelbaum) Subj: RE: British Pound--Reply Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 03:10:40 -0400
Nathaniel Johnson (clarinat@-----.com) wrote:
>
>I was in England 2 years ago and found that the number of pounds that it
>cost to buty something there was very close to the number of dollars it
>would cost to buy something here. The problem was the exchange rate. A
>McDonalds lunch that would cost 5 dollars here would cost 5 pounds
there,
>but you had to exchange $7.50 to get those 5 pounds. Such is the price
>of world travel >:-(
Too bad this doesn't work in Italy--imagine buying a new R-13 for only
1800 lira!
Rob Teitelbaum
rteitelbaum@-----.com
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