Living abroad tips and hints for money savers

donny-gal

I had to bite the bullet the other day and tranfer some over I got €1.08 using the free transfers from Halifax to Halifax

DG

droopsnout

Dizzy heights!!

1 GBP = 1.14016 EUR
1 EUR = 0.877072 GBP

gfplux

Hello droopsnout.
Where/how do you track the Exchange rate.

carrots

I was wondering that, too gfplux.

The trackers I use (Reuters UK and forex-realm.com currency chart) shut down at the weekend because the fx market is closed. At least that's almost two days a week when I can't be worrying about the exchange rate!

baccyman

you can get exchange rates at the bbc see below,

http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/fds/hi/business/market_data/currency/default.stm

those are bussiness rates and not what you would get in the exchanges or banks

droopsnout

gfplux wrote: »

Hello droopsnout.
Where/how do you track the Exchange rate.

Hulloo!

I always use the same one: https://www.xe.com/ucc

donny-gal

Hi from France!

Had a good journey down to Dover, thought we might miss the snow, but it was trying hard (but not settling) around the M25 and in Kent:eek: , though we had brilliant sunshine up until the M11. MW hope you managed to avoid it when you were celebrating with friends today:beer: . The snow seemed to carry on from where we left it when we returned in late November.:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Made it to Evreux about half an hour ago, and just having a coffee. Hope to see some of you tomorrow.

Filled up with diesel at Auchan Coquelles for 0.975€ , so a saving of .13c a litre ish as it 98p a litre in Donny.

DG

Errata

Donny - if you've just driven over from Donny, you've had a lucky escape. It's snowing and settleing like the clappers in Wakey !

droopsnout

donny-gal wrote: »

Hi from France!

Had a good journey down to Dover, thought we might miss the snow, but it was trying hard (but not settling) around the M25 and in Kent:eek: , though we had brilliant sunshine up until the M11. MW hope you managed to avoid it when you were celebrating with friends today:beer: . The snow seemed to carry on from where we left it when we returned in late November.:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Made it to Evreux about half an hour ago, and just having a coffee. Hope to see some of you tomorrow.

Filled up with diesel at Auchan Coquelles for 0.975€ , so a saving of .13c a litre ish as it 98p a litre in Donny.

DG

Welcome to France, you two!

Have a good and relaxing evening, and a safe journey tomorrow.

I put some diesel in the car yesterday locally at 0,959€ a litre. But it does for some reason seem a little cheaper in our local places than many busier towns.

Merrywidow, hope you had/are having a great time.

Merrywidow

Hi Donny & Droopsnout - thanks I did have a reasonable time. My friend's husband, Mike, was suffering from a Hernia and due in hospital in two days, my mate Shirley is in agony and awaiting a new knee in two weeks. Lunch was great (at my favourite restaurant) but the wine tasted like vinegar!
Glad you had a good journey Donny - its been snowing heavens hard since dusk and we have about 3 inches in Tunbridge Wells. Hey Ho - have to be at the Doc's at 8.40 - it will take me ages to dig the car out. Safe journey donny-gal.