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[peaches]

Hi ,
I have just come back from Limassl after spending 10 days on holiday and i must say that since the change to the euro, i have found things to be bit more expensive for eating out etc compared to when it was the cyprus pound last year. Also i found it to be a lot quieter this year compared to last, could this be the reason why? A lot of brits are going on holiday to non EUro currency countries this year , like Bulgaria.
I have very good friends living in cyprus and they to have said the changes are noticeable, i am back in September hopefully the Euro would have picked up by then.

[CBBB]

Prices have gone up in general worldwide and the Euro changeover may have had a slight affect on this in Cyprus, but the main problem is the weakness of the pound sterling.

Perhaps Britain should have dropped it's purely sentimental attachment to it's currency a long time ago and then the perceived difference would appear minimal.

Mind you, with Blair, and now brown, in charge they would have probably brought the Euro down as well!

[Xybadog]

Perhaps Britain should have dropped it's purely sentimental attachment to it's currency a long time ago and then the perceived difference would appear minimal.

What good would adopting the Euro have done to the UK economy? Why don't we adopt the Yen? It's one of the consistently strongest currencies in the world? My point being why should we have to change just because other countries in Europe have.

The easiest way to have avoided this was for all countries to say NO to a single currency. The sad thing is, that if the Euro/£GBP exchange rate remains at roughly the same long-term, which it looks like it could, it will have a detrimental effect on only those countries that have adopted it and not those that haven't, by way of lost tourist trade. The US tourist trade (from the UK) is booming at present with the USD/GBP exchange rate at levels last seen about 15 years ago.

[CBBB]

But the Euro Dollar rate is even better!

[purdey]

It maybe the case, but the vast majority of the tourist trade in the EU is heading to Egypt, Bulgaria, Turkey and Spain. If I am correct the UK still heads the the list of Europeans heading to the USA.

[CBBB]

Two countries divided by a common language!

[paliometoxo]

we shouldent have accepted the Euro :@ why dident england accept it? we shouldent have either, the Euro was a mistake

[peaches]

I hope to god tht Engladn does not accept the euro , i will bevoting Oki !!!!

[Feisty]

Why should all the other countries say no to the Euro because you say they should?
We are the odd men out not all the countries that have adopted it (rightly or wrongly for them).

Perhaps Britain should have dropped it's purely sentimental attachment to it's currency a long time ago and then the perceived difference would appear minimal.

What good would adopting the Euro have done to the UK economy? Why don't we adopt the Yen? It's one of the consistently strongest currencies in the world? My point being why should we have to change just because other countries in Europe have.

The easiest way to have avoided this was for all countries to say NO to a single currency. The sad thing is, that if the Euro/£GBP exchange rate remains at roughly the same long-term, which it looks like it could, it will have a detrimental effect on only those countries that have adopted it and not those that haven't, by way of lost tourist trade. The US tourist trade (from the UK) is booming at present with the USD/GBP exchange rate at levels last seen about 15 years ago.