Sunday, February 14, 2010

Europe on $5 a day!

In 1968
Our "meal allowance" in Paris was 10 F.

Gasoline: 1 F/litre (now it's 1,10 €)
Un pain: 1 F (now it's what? 1,20 € ?)
Un litre de vin ordinaire: 1 F (le "vin ordinaire" (remember the bottles with stars around the top?) doesn't exist any more)
Ticket de restau U: 1,50 F?

N.B. 1 € = 6,55957 F
In 1968, $1 = 5 FF = 0,76 €
Today, $1 = 4.8 FF = 0,73 €
Things haven't changed much after all, except that the cost of living in France caught up with the cost of living in the US.

Do you remember any other prices?
I remember that I bought alot of stamps (but never called home all year, and don't remember feeling homesick).

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