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SusieB 
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 PM Topic: 2013Posted: 04 Apr 2013 at 12:22pm |
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We arrived home Monday and using our Nationwide credit card we got a rate of exchange of 1.179 which was not too bad.
Cheers Sue
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BruceAndMaria
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PM Posted: 02 Apr 2013 at 12:17pm |
Thats the idea Dave...Best bit about changing over in Kassiopi is you get a safety deposit box to put your bits and pieces in, saves you lugging it all around with you where ever you go. I never go looking for the highest exchange rate because it will only be one or two cents difference from one end of the village to the other...  Bruce
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Daveneil
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PM Posted: 01 Apr 2013 at 9:33pm |
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Thanks Bruce thats me sorted, 20 squid notes loads of them.
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3 weeks to go till Paradise.
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Janw
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PM Posted: 01 Apr 2013 at 6:12pm |
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Seems like good advice I need Euros soon...cant wait
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BruceAndMaria
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PM Posted: 01 Apr 2013 at 5:46pm |
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I just tell Vera at Cosmic in Kassiopi how many Euros I need to pay for Agathis apartment then Vera tells me how much that is in pounds...job done.
I put the rest of my pounds plus our flight paperwork and passports in their safe deposit box and just change up my pounds when I need to after that...no worrys...  Bruce
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PM Posted: 01 Apr 2013 at 11:05am |
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Same here Bruce, just like to take about £100 in euros to do a shop on way to villa and have a little drink when we get there
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PM Posted: 31 Mar 2013 at 8:30pm |
Same here Bruce.  Alec. |
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PM Posted: 31 Mar 2013 at 12:02pm |
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Like every year since the year dot I'll take my pounds to Kassiopi and change them there. It saves all that bother of changing them here in the UK...plus the Greeks make a few cents, the travel companies already make enough out of me...
Bruce
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PM Posted: 30 Mar 2013 at 10:58am |
Thats a great deal, wish I'd have seen that rate a month ago...Sainsburys rate at the moment is only €1.15 = £1.00 Bruce
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PM Posted: 29 Mar 2013 at 5:03pm |
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A month ago the interbank rate was 1.15430 so you got 10 cents to the pound more than the banks were getting. Wow.
The post office rates are usualy pretty lousy but they have handiness in their favour.
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PM Posted: 29 Mar 2013 at 4:42pm |
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Wow 1.26 is great, I wish I could get that now.
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3 weeks to go till Paradise.
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Alehouse
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PM Posted: 29 Mar 2013 at 4:34pm |
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Got mine a month ago from Sainsburrys bank euros at 1.26. Dont think that was to bad and NO commision
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Daveneil
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PM Posted: 29 Mar 2013 at 11:56am |
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Thanks, I will keep my eye on them and if they go up soon to about 1 18 I will grab some.
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3 weeks to go till Paradise.
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PM Posted: 29 Mar 2013 at 10:40am |
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Hi,
Have any of you looked at ASDA they seem to be giving the best rate at the moment, commission free. We go May 13th so have been looking around over the last week. I think its 1.15 today.
Sue
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PM Posted: 29 Mar 2013 at 10:11am |
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Wednesday in the UK, only got 1.11 € to the £. Post office same rate. Think we will be bringing sterling this year.
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PM Posted: 28 Mar 2013 at 9:29pm |
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Hi Daveneil,
All I can advise is to keep an eye on the exchange rate and try to judge when it is best to buy. I have been watching it this week and it has risen from 1.14 on Monday to 1.18 today, which I assume is due to the Cyprus problems.
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PM Posted: 28 Mar 2013 at 9:28pm |
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Here is the euro price over the last 4 weeks.
The column on the left(vertical) tells you how many pence you have to spend to buy one euro.  |
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PM Posted: 28 Mar 2013 at 9:23pm |
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Very up and down at the moment with the Cyprus problems etc.
Its anyones bet when to get some but we will be taking sterling with us and changing it in Kassiopi so we will get what we get. Last September when we went we got a good rate but in the June we got quite a bit less. At the end of the day we are in Corfu and everything else is a bonus.
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PM Posted: 28 Mar 2013 at 8:58pm |
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Whens the best time to get Euros as we are going on May 25th.
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3 weeks to go till Paradise.
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PM Posted: 28 Mar 2013 at 8:38pm |
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Holiday balance paid today.
Managed to save £70 compared to euro rate if we had paid 4 weeks ago!!!
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