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10-03-23, 12:02 PM

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Originally Posted by indyfabz

I remember backpacking in Europe in the 80s. In some countries you could live pretty well on $35 dollars/day. In Barcelona I got a hotel room with a private bathroom and AC for something like $10. Breakfast included. Place even had a bellhop.

BTW…At least in the US, commercial airlines transport stuff for $. I remember seeing lots of mail being loaded onto a plane more than once. A long time ago I read about the surprising number of the deceased that commercial airlines transport. (People die away from home it seems.) So weight is not the only consideration.

I think the old Let's Go! Europe! books used to suggest you could do it on five dollars a day, but that was back in the 1960s.

Here is a far more meaningful chart on the value of the Euro against the buck. This is ten year chart. The vertical axis is dollars, where 100 = 1 dollar. I guess they have a war on decimal points as well, in Europe these days.

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Last edited by Roughstuff; 10-03-23 at 12:05 PM.

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