The pound looks like it is rapidly heading for parity with the Euro.
Staycation in a caravan at Bognor Regis anyone?
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>>Staycation in a caravan at Bognor Regis anyone?
Tunisia looks nice:
"The Foreign and Commonwealth Office no longer advise against travel to Tunisia, except for parts of the south and interior and certain areas near the borders with Algeria and Libya"
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I'm in Italy, currently on a beach near Orbatello, it doesn't seem expensive, i.e. €1 for a cold bottle of water from the beach café is fine even if it it 1:1 with the £
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I can currently transfer £ to € on my Revolut account @ 1.10 Euros to the pound
But to save money whilst in the Alps for almost 3 weeks next month I'm going tee total. And taking my Katadyn water filter so I'm not paying a fortune for bottled water in the mountain huts, although hopefully at altitude the stream stuff is potable.
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>> And taking my Katadyn water filter so I'm not paying a fortune
>> for bottled water in the mountain huts, although hopefully at altitude the stream stuff is
>> potable.
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If there's a bend in the stream, look round the corner - you might cows grazing on the alpine pastures.... :-)
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>>If there's a bend in the stream, look round the corner - you might cows grazing on the alpine pastures.... :-)
Never mind the cows, what about the fish? You know what fish do in the water, they piddle in it!
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Maybe not for long. (You need to be a subscriber to read the whole article but there is enough text to get the drift.)
www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2017/08/14/euros-surge-wont-last-much-longer/
Good for me while it lasts, what with my Euro pensions.
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I am supplementing my pension with sales of honey (note: beekeeping still makes a loss but a smaller one!)
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Ah, on which subject...
How is the world / Country's bee population doing?
I was talking to a beekeeper in Chile yesterday who was all doom and gloom about the future of the bee population.
Specifically here he told me that the keepers are so desperate to sell honey, its expensive, that they leave none for the bees, leave a cheap substitute instead and hence the weakened bees are susceptible to everything going.
All very sad. It made me think of you and the UK and wondered what the state of the bee population was overall.
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A bumper turn out for buff tailed bumble bees in my garden this year but honey bees very rarely seen.
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I suppose it makes the maths easy - Dog
