Pound to Euro atm

You love renting though Brid....some of us actually want to get on the property ladder!

I really wanted to get on the property ladder... then I started renting 6 months ago.. and just committed to another year.. oops....!

Gonna have implications in the footy transfer market this summer. Not only will Euro2008 push prices up post tournament (as it always does), but British clubs are going to have to shell out a lot more Pounds than in previous summers for top players from European sides cos of the weak state of the Pound to the Euro

its going to effect Ibz massivly, whos going to pay £60 into Cocoon etc. Beer boys are going to need like 3k for a two weeker I might fuck Ibz off becasue of this and go states or wait and go asia after the summer

ps its 1.19 now

Was in germany last weekend for timewarp and ran out of euros so got the 50quid i had on me changed over and got 52euros for it, fuckin rats!

Is there much to spend it on in luxembourg

Just renewed our mortgage and its going to be us being alot worse off than we have been

Aye am not looking foward to getting money changed for Ibiza, wanted 2000 euros which is gonna cost roughly £1650 compared to last year being under £1400.

*P.S - http://www.travelex.co.uk/uk/ Online currency ordering - Best price on the high street guaranteed, I never knew about this until I started working there, different rates to what they have in the branches.

I got proper jipped in France a couple of weeks ago.

In Paris airport I exhanged £40 and got 46 Euro back !
Didnt spend nowt coz it took 90 mintes to check in.

Exchanged the 46 Euro when I got back to Newcastle and got about £35 back !

Where I work is a fucking rip off. If you bought 100 euro today it'd be £90.71, then if you gave us 100 euro you'd get £67.24 - Daylight Robbery!

Dam i seen this in the news but never cared much about it, (but i forgot im going on holiday in 7 weeks )

If you're with HSBC, get Bank Account Plus if you're going abroad. I got it for coming over here. You get free travel insurance with it and you can make unlimited free withdrawals with your bank card abroad at the actual exchange rate. I'm sure other banks will have similar schemes too.

http://www.hsbc.co.uk/1/2/personal/current-accounts/bank-account-plus

Nationwide also do free cash withdrawals abroad, good thing to have considering everytime you use your card abroad from most banks you'd be charged either £3.50 or 2.5% of the transaction : which ever is greater (or something along those lines) not entirely sure I dont even take bank card on holiday, prefer cash myself.

Dont know a lot about these, but looks like a good idea.

http://www.postoffice.co.uk/portal/po/jump1?catId=19300207&mediaId=26800661&campaignid=HTML3

We sell them at our place, had nothing but problems with the ones we sell so far since they started.

Had a family come back from Dubai absolutely foaming they'd only took couple hundred quids worth of Dirhams & loaded almost 2 grand (the rest of holiday money onto the Cash Passport, which was not accepted almost everywhere in Dubai, they had said they had tried everywhere restaraunts/shops/banks & could not buy anything or withdraw cash from any of these.

They said that the places were questioning the security of them, no chip & pin although it works of a chip & pin system?!? no name or anything on the card, they just look like a store card, no way i'd be risking it! Good idea but Travelex have definately fucked it up, hopefully the Post Office havent.

are any of you lot rethinking your holiday plans becasue of this?

not unless the pound becomes fucked and the cost of australian dollars doubles

do they take euros in amble?