Off to Germany tomorrow morning at 06.30 hrs to pick up a van load of wine so will have a Mc D breakfast when we get there, oh, and fill up the tank.
Half the price over there compared to here, they were very good at keeping a sensible exchange rate from the D mark to the Euro where as over here it was 2.20371 Dutch Guilders (NLG) for 1 euro (EUR). Inverted, this gives EUR 0.453780 for NLG 1.
Put it this way, a (small) Dutch beer used to cost 2 Guilders, now we pay 2.20 Euro and no, peoples pay packets did not get the same exchange rate.