The Cost of Currency Conversion

Today we are mainly trying to decide what to pack (and ship) and what to throw (or give) away. On the list today was our steam steriliser. Yours at Boots the Chemists for a mere 36 of your English pounds.

According to Yahoo! Finance that translates into 92 and a bit Australian dollars. Yet when I check online, its a stonking 135 dollars. That is what I call a foreign exchange mark-up.

Needless to say the steriliser is being packed and consigned to a container. Along with rather a lot of other assorted junk. I mean, how can a chap survive without his ice cream maker?