$1.68 Souvenir from Italy
Jun. 7th, 2025 09:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerI've remarked before that one simple souvenir I like to bring back from foreign countries is money. On our trip to Italy two weeks ago we got cash from an ATM just in case we needed it. It turned out we didn't. Even the subway in Rome could be paid by tapping a credit card directly at the fare gate. (It was the same with the subway in Panama City... how many more years until this 2010s tech appears in the US?) Thus we strove to spend down our cash but leave just enough to take home as a memento.
There's what was left in our pockets when we headed to the airport last Saturday— €1.47. Or about $1.68 at current exchange rates. Or about $1.98 at the cooked exchange rate the ATM in Italy charged me. 😡
This money now goes in my bagged collection of various foreign currencies I keep in a desk drawer. ...Which I should've checked before the trip... because I already had €5.26 (about $6) from a previous trip years ago. Well, now I have more Euros.
There's what was left in our pockets when we headed to the airport last Saturday— €1.47. Or about $1.68 at current exchange rates. Or about $1.98 at the cooked exchange rate the ATM in Italy charged me. 😡
This money now goes in my bagged collection of various foreign currencies I keep in a desk drawer. ...Which I should've checked before the trip... because I already had €5.26 (about $6) from a previous trip years ago. Well, now I have more Euros.
