Wednesday, May 21, 2008

The Value of Money

With all the changes of countries and currencies confusion set in.

We did realise that a tailor made suit in Hué for £40 (Milan made cloth!!) or a silk dress in Hanoi for £20, and a bespoke leather jacket for Sabine (Argentina), again, at £55 were reasonable - actually excellent value.

By the end of our trip we in fact were seriously loosing track of the value of money - what, was worth, what!

I think from the below you will understand why (and these figures do not take into account the devaluation of the US$ by 10% against most world currency during the 80 days).

Ok: 1 Euro = AED 5.74331 (Dubai) = INR 66.6621 = US$ 1.56413 = VND 25291.58 (Vietnam) = HK$ 12.1988 = AU$ 1.62928 = NZ$ 2.01465 = CLP 744.928 (Chile) = AGS 4.92673 (Argentina) = BRL 2.58087 = 1 Euro

Got it? Well, we spoilt ourselves anyway!!

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