Read this blog: The one where we are confused by currency rates Thursday 12th March 2026 We decided to book a car to take us to some of the more out-lying sites and asked the hotel to arrange this while we were having brreakfast. The man on reception came back to us and quoted a price. We both put this into the currency converter in the calculator on our iPhones and came out with very different numbers. Robert initially thought it would cost the equivalent of about £15 whereas Matilda’s converted figure was closer to £40. Robert agreed to book the car and we noted the different conversion rates afterwards but we are now wary of believing the iPhone currency conversion rates. The actual price was closer to the figure Matilda had seen. When Robert went to reception to pay for the car in advance, he also collected our laundry and was told that they had never done so much laundry for a guest ever before. Robert explained our system of travelling light with about ten days’ worth of clothes and getting them washed when we have a few days in the same hotel. Our first stop in the car […]
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