Fair Warning

What body is it again? I'm sure I've got a set of batteries round here you can
have rather than spend £10 on a new set for a few pics.

 

Watch out - there's a feral apostrophe policeman about.

 

Nice indeed.

 

I must admit I was very dissapointed when I saw stonehenge. I thought it
would be bigger. I would go see it though if I was on a biking holiday
around the UK.

Free car park. It's the way to go. It's not like you get to go up and
stroke and fondle the stones in an interacting with history kind of
manner.

And there's a pub in the middle.

 

Err... I can't remember!

I think it takes a couple of CR2s, so only a few quid. I'm pretty sure
I've got some in my stray battery pot, which unfortunately has gone
astray.

 

Yes but it isn't. I have actual contextually placed in the right part of
the timeline personal experience of the Ace and those things that make the
myth what it is today and my time and the experiences gained during it is
at the very end of it's time. Those blokes who chased us down the road and
kicked seven colours of shit out of us are gone, as are unreliable the
machines they rode upon. Although what with you being trained to buy
nostalgia as a part of your patriotic duty you will probably love all the
tacky plastic and high by any standards prices you find there now.

 

Is it? If the exchange rate was 1:1, would you get the same amount of
petrol for 1 euro in France as you would for $1 in the US?

 

Indeed no but there is no need for him to break his own heart over a
barrel of unfulfilled expectations that have started to go off in the
midday sun is there. Do the touristy bits that everyone knows so you can
have tales of palaces and grand monuments and mighty forests and shit to
tell the folks back home by all means but avoid completely having your own
cherished mental images smashed by poorly presented out and out tourist
rip off trash.

 

I dunno, I quite like Stonehenge and it's environs.

A couple of years ago we 'did' the green lanes around there and stopped
off at Stonehenge. Having gone round it a few times previously I was
expecting a boring hour ... dunno why but on that day something 'got
hold' of me and I just wanted to stay and see more of it. Finally left
after 4 hours .... having taken a couple of SD cards worth of pics,
even a few videos! and just feeling completely awe-struck!

Been back since and it didn't hit me in quite the same way, I guess the
Ley Lines (sp?) were having a day off maybe ..

 

No idea at the moment, TBH, but let's assume not, then stretch your
comparison to a point where, say, the US dollar was worth two euros,
or three, or whatever it takes.

The point is simple - price comparisons from one currency to another
can _only_ be made relative to a specified rate of exchange between
them.

 

I have to disagree. E.g. a pint of beer in a bar in Benidorm might cost
Thomas say $3. A pint of beer in a bar in Monte Carlo is more likely to
be $15. They both use Euros so the difference can't be due to the
exchange rate. Monte Carlo is a very expensive place to visit compared
to Benidorm simply due to the base cost of things, & I suspect the UK
is quite expensive compared to the US for the same reason (over & above
the exchange rate).

 

Yes - and no.

If a pint is €3 in Benidorm and £3 in the UK, is the UK expensive or
cheap compared to Benidorm?

Will your answer change if £1=€1 or £1=€2?

 

What part of "from one currency to another" did you fail to
comprehend?

Nonono. You don't seem to get it at all! If the exchange rate were ten
pounds to the dollar would it still be expensive?

 

None of it, hence the bit I put below.

I think I do. I've even written code to calculate differences in the
cost of things excluding exchange rate fluctuations.

I'm not saying the exchange rate doesn't affect it (obviously). I'm
saying that the base cost of things in some countries is fundamentally
higher due to tax or whatever, & that also has an impact.

If you're seriously suggesting that someone who lived in say Bulgaria
would find Monte Carlo expensive purely because of the exchange rate,
I'll have to suggest that you've had a bang on the head.

 

I have no idea.

No, I'd still have no idea. I don't think of Spain as being a
particularly cheap or expensive country compared to the UK.

 

The real one is admittedly a little larger than that one. As an aside
did you notice the IMDB rating out of 10 goes up to 11 on Spinal Tap?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088258/

 

Oh, superb. Shame you can't actually select 11 though.

 

Krusty escribió:

Not much in it. Beer's cheaper, but other living costs are much higher like
leccy and internet. White goods cost loads more. Petrol's cheaper, but here
the banks still charge to use each others machines and one still has to pay
to sign up for anything ie; leccy or telephone. Insurance is more expensive.
Food's about the same, but clothes are dearer. Banks charge for anything
including paying money in. Taxes are higher. I want to go self-employed but
basic rate stamp starts at 250 euros per month, so I won't for a while.

 

I'd go to India but it'd take a serious amount of money to get me to go
back to Pakistan.

I could compile a list of places I never want to go to either again or
for the first time and india wouldn't even make the top twenty.

Of places I've been to before the top three (in no particular order)
have to be Pakistan, Nigeria & Angola. Shit holes in a way India could
never get near.

 

Often, yes. The Grog & Gruel with the lovely Dark Island ale from Orkney
was a welcome relief in Fort William last time I was there. Seems a number
of ale breweries have sprung up in the Highlands & Islands.
http://www.grogandgruel.co.uk/p/v/great-beer/