BarbaraH wrote
Bob Hobden wrote:

I'd prefer to drive but would take the train if it was a short stay.
Paris is so expensive anyway and with the Euro rate at this time
France is no longer cheap.

I found London very expensive, Paris not quite so.
I had to tell my self to just hand over the money and to stop mentally
converting pounds/Euros to dollars and being horrified. :-)
From my posts you may remember we just had a week or so in SW France, and we
found things much more expensive than the UK due to the rate of exchange.
Even our friends that live over there say prices have gone up recently.
However London is a law unto itself and is always expensive, we try to avoid
the place.
Our £ has taken quite a hit compared with the Euro or US $. It's why the
French now come over here to do shopping whereas it's traditionally been the
other way round.

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Regards
Bob Hobden
just W. of London