So the dollar is now worth 50p. Yup we finally crossed the $2 to the GBP mark yesterday making trips to the UK frighteningly expensive and marking New York down as a place ripe for the maurading. It's been 15 years since the dollar was as low and I have to say that seeing the pound value of my salary drop by 20% based on currency exchange is just horrible.
We'll be staying in dollar friendly countries for the foreseeable future therefore. We are however getting on a plane soon and heading for Ann Arbor, MI where Jude has accepted a job and I have become excited by the prospect of owning a car again - all be it in absentia. I'll not bore you with the car thing again but the list (after lots of excel, lots of formula and 2 days of fact digging) looks like this
1. Honda Civic Hybrid (great choice but a saloon)
2. Toyota Yaris (1.5l, 109bhp but nasty interior - only $11k though)
3. Toyota Prius (the greeny's hybrid)
4. Nissan Altima Hybrid (the non-greeny's hybrid)
5. Honda Fit (again 1.5l, 110 bhp, endless seat configurations, tiny)
Will drive the Civic and the Prius while we're away. It'll be good to take a break from the city, from arranging the 3 monthly scans, from the rain and from dental treatment and from the incessant demands of the Blackberry
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Whereas from our POV it's flights for a tenner and suitcases full of dockers pants, ipods, and victoria's secret...
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