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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Friday, November 11, 1988

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 11, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                What your Dollar wih buy Iii 10 it tales i Europe taxi 10 Mii Amsterdam Athens $sj50 Dublin Geneva luxury hotel $137 one Mem. Doubt room a Liniai and service Loigu Tori moderate hotel $187 own org if. Budi dinner  Mirim cup of Coffee $1.38 in a Fiorel co Tco shop saw $1.40. $3.17 ib.6 2md Fachtna  Irish pounds 13 Switi Irani s320 460 Swul Lun London $7.15 4poundl Madrid Munich Paris Rome Vienna $2.08 $5.09 Ftp win. 144. Ashen Ablin s77. Be rime coun Wra  $582 $246 Riso omut v.i1 Mugni Vita   to Tinct $396 hair int Dion Taos  $4.00 so Qundui "$70 10  1188 780 swim 1tane& $ 133 200 sw41 Liano que stud. Pari Adlae use by Henmi hum c h ct5n $153 in Iro Myrtil $32 Plotki Ouatu 1134 $94 $111 $83 m0 re Hole it 73" udi Rinnen Tram bin $252 Cwi Kidlat a Woumnm $2b8 $151 $80 11.mtr $1.96 98qffrichmdi. Condil Shohi def l iikkilni4tny4l41nvddir.6ct 3.i94b a lev s1.j8 s1.33 $a.41. $2.40 z Swai it Lex Hoial Imick bkleiT1ho&rt a. H con $2.97 i Ciunci $1.90 2jmrl ourth 3,72hot.ltja� stretching your travel Dollar in Europe by Steve Lohr new York times tin . . I Kcjr two years   the favorite major european City of the Thrifty. Yugoslavia is also a prime destination for the budget conscious with a per i Iem of $ 112 in Belgrade. In other a or elites Amsterdam Dublin and Geneva for instance the Price increases were less than 10 percent. And in Paris and Rome costs agreeably behaved As they should during a period when the Dollar rises they fell. In Paris the allowance fell from 11 do a Day to $ 162, a 10 percent decline in Rome it was Down 6 percent. Though bargains in Europe May be increasingly scarce they can still be found on selected hems. Healer in London s West end for example is still cheaper Ihnn on Broadway. The average ticket Price in London is $22.56. The average Broadway lick trl was $31.10 last year in London a half Price ticket Booth with a $1.77 booking fee is at Leicester Square near Charlie Chaplin s statue. The Booth Sells tickets for evening performances weekdays from 2 30 to 6 30 . Matinee tickets Are sold wednesdays thursdays and saturdays from noon. When shopping go to a country s Siren Jyh and chances Are the prices will be  in Short goods that a Nal Ion is renowned for exporting purchased Al the source before All the middlemen have put their margins into the Price tag. Ireland for example is surprisingly expensive for a country whose per Capila income is Only iwo thirds the european Community average. Bul woolens Are an excellent buy almost irresistibly so. A Donegal Tweed sport coat fully lined sold recently for in 45 at the duty free Emporium at Dubin s Airport. Except for the color it was the same jacket with the same Label inside thai Cost about $200 eight years ago in one of Manhattan s belter men s stores. To keep costs Down Here Are a few Hills Al the lop of the list is to Send friends and relatives postcards instead of railing them on the phone from ,1 Hole. Phone Calls from hotels Are regularly twice or three limes the Normal rate a recent a minute Call from a hotel in Goteborg Sweden to new York added More than $90 to the Bill. One is Leoti plod to say hat the Way to keep expenses Down while travelling in Europe is 10 avoid Scandinavia All  because wages Are kept High in  in the name of egalitarian socialism the result is poor value for the Money in Many scandinavian hotels. Nol Long ago i paid $180 a nigh l. For a Copenhagen hotel room hat was a tiny modular construction number with All  
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