The euro is useful because it has simplified travel to Europe but I miss the old pre-euro currencies. To have a wallet full of romantic and exciting sounding notes made you feel like a true international traveller. I liked the French franc and the Spanish peseta and the Greek drachma of course but my absolute favourite was the Italian lira simply because you just got so many.
Posted in Childhood, Europe, History, Literature, Postcards, Travel, World Heritage
Tagged Foreign Currency, France Franc, Italy Lira. Portugal Escudo, Life, Photography, postaday, Spain Peseta, Travel
Foreign Currency:
The euro is useful because it has simplified travel to Europe but I miss the old pre-euro currencies. To have a wallet full of romantic and exciting sounding notes made you feel like a true international traveller. I liked the French franc and the Spanish peseta and the Greek drachma of course but my absolute favourite was the Italian lira simply because you just got so many.
Foreign Currency:
The euro is useful because it has simplified travel to Europe but I miss the old pre-euro currencies. To have a wallet full of romantic and exciting sounding notes made you feel like a true international traveller. I liked the French franc and the Spanish peseta and the Greek drachma of course but my absolute favourite was the Italian lira simply because you just got so many.
Posted in Childhood, Europe, History, Literature, Travel
Tagged Banknotes, Foreign Currency, Life, Photography, postaday, Travel
Foreign Currency:
The euro is useful because it has simplified travel to Europe but I miss the old pre-euro currencies. To have a wallet full of romantic and exciting sounding notes made you feel like a true international traveller. I liked the French franc and the Spanish peseta and the Greek drachma of course but my absolute favourite was the Italian lira simply because you just got so many.
Foreign Currency:
The euro is useful because it has simplified travel to Europe but I miss the old pre-euro currencies. To have a wallet full of romantic and exciting sounding notes made you feel like a true international traveller. I liked the French franc and the Spanish peseta and the Greek drachma of course but my absolute favourite was the Italian lira simply because you just got so many.
Posted in Europe, History, USA, World Heritage
Tagged Banknotes, Foreign Currency, Life, Photography, postaday, Travel
“Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.” – Ernest Hemingway
After a second generous Teutonic breakfast we booked out of the hotel and took a taxi to a car rental office a couple of kilometres out of town. Our plan was to take the ferry across to Romanshorn again and then drive through Switzerland to Liechtenstein. At this stage we didn’t have a road map because I tend to consider these to be an unnecessary expense and I was fairly confident that the place would be signposted and not too difficult to find, as it is, after all, an independent European sovereign state.
Posted in Europe, Germany, History, Hotels, Natural Environment, Switzerland, Travel
Tagged Foreign Currency, Friedrichshafen, Germany, Lake Constance, Le Corbusier, Romanshorn, St Gallen, Switzerland, Tregen
I had a great nights sleep and woke early as usual. I carried out the early morning weather check and satisfied that the sun was shining already I made everyone a cup of tea and I then went to the village to buy some fruit for breakfast.
There was a mini-market with a good selection of curiously shaped fruits. Although ugly they looked interesting and I bought plums, peaches, grapes and oranges none of which would have made it through fruit police quality control at Tesco. Having selected my breakfast purchases I encountered a problem. It is difficult to buy €5 euros worth of groceries with a €50 note so early in the morning. The till was already almost empty and after scratching around for my change it looking as though Dick Turpin had paid a visit and left his calling card!
Posted in back packing, Cathedrals, Europe, Greece, Greek islands, Greek Taverna, History, island hopping, Travel
Tagged Backpacking, Blue Sky, car hire, Cyclades, Fira, Foreign Currency, Greece, Greek Island Hopping, Greek islands, Oia, Santorini, Sunset, Thira
Have Bag, Will Travel 