In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
>Hi All, > >Just to wish you all a happy new year - hope the hangovers are receiving >the nesscessary treatment!! Happy new year, Darren. >The Euro is in full swing over here; organised Chaos this morning, as >everyone comes to terms with it. The coins have a very cheap feel to them, >a bit like the toy money in those toy grocery shop sets for children! Notes >are much smaller, so you feel you have a lot less money even it your bank >balance is larger!! > >Took me 20 minutes to pay for a newspaper this morning as the poor girl >tried to work out the correct change - by law, all shops must accept both >euro and irish punts until 9/2/02, and give change solely in Euro. Quite >confusing!! You could have read most newspapers for free in that time ... How many punts to the Euro then ? ... I must admit I have not yet seen a Euro note in 'real life', nor any of the coins. The 'time was' when genuine coins had real gold or silver in them :-) -- Malcolm Cadman
