In the course of my packing, I decided to clean out my wallet because it’s nearing the point of weighing more than my carry on. Apart from the usual litter of receipts, I have the following:
- 8.20 Euros. Somewhat deliberate as I changed the notes when I returned to Prague in a futile attempt not to have to withdraw any more cKs while here. I figured the ~8 would be enough to get a sandwich and drink at Munich Hauptbahnhof. While I’m at it, Euros. I always hear how hard US coins are because neither the dime nor quarter are marked with monetary value and the nickel is bigger than the dime. Uh… the 50 cent piece is bigger than the one Euro coin, so they’re insane too
- 2.40 pounds sterling. Well I do have a layover at LHR, but that’s going to be as useful as $US. May see if someone else is going to have a more useful layover, though I don’t think they do.
- $3.40 (US) leftover from what I had in my wallet and change made when changing currency at the airport before left.
- 1227 ck. At least that (with the exception of the 27 which accumulates like Japanese one yen coins) is changeable.
And did I mention I only just got rid of the Polish Zlotkys and will be adding Swiss Francs by tomorrow…. There are times like this I don’t believe Europe will ever have one currency. Then again, currency insanity has a tendency of doing my head in.
Off to a final dinner at Chapadlo, the neighbourhood haunt, and then back here to finish packing. I’m being *very good* and throwing lots of random brochures away. Fitting all the class-generated papers into my backpack is proving challenging. I did however get the Strap’n'Lock to work so I don’t have to worry about the bag on the train. It’s funny, when I went looking for that link, I also found the Link Lock, which is what I was after when I bought this lock. The Link Lock was useful while travelling if I wanted to both lock my smaller ‘daypack’ and lock it to something (i.e. with laptop and camera in it) but of course I couldn’t find either of mine before I left.
Can’t believe I’ll be home in ~75 hours. Eeep. Not sure what internet access at the hostels in Switzerland will be, but I’ll be around on e-mail at least once.
