[HPFGU-Movie] Digest Number 1499

[artsylynda at aol.com]

In a message dated 6/2/2006 9:29:00 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com writes:

Glad you  enjoyed the UK tour, and I've learned at least a couple of
things from it -  that the interior of Gringotts is Australia House - I
wonder how they got  permission to film in there!
I thought that "Glory" concoction, a  old-fashioned name we seldom see
these days - all sorts of icecream and  various sweet extras all piled
up into a glass - was actually American, so  it was a surprise that you
found it was a native UK product!
The  countries that use the euro aren't any cheaper than the UK, so I
don't know  why you found the pound/dollar rate more expensive.
Those glass structures  are called, pretentiously, "conservatories",
they are often tacked on to  cheap houses in a row as well as to
expensive detached houses, and they're  very much a sign of the
nerdiness that characterises the Dursleys - they  don't cost all that
much either!
We're English by the way, not  British!
I hope everyone will come over and take the tour - you'll be made  very
welcome.




The website where I found the info on the knickerbocker glory said  the word 
"knickerbocker" is American, but the treat is apparently "English"  ;-)  

The thing about the Euro is, when you look at exchange rates,  when you're 
changing one currency for another, the Euro is about equal to the  American 
dollar, and the pound is $1.85 (at least that's what it was when we  exchanged 
money here in the US.  Fees at money exchange stands in the UK  were a bit 
higher).  Rounding off, when you buy stuff in the UK for 5  pounds, you're paying 
about 10 American dollars.  American's need to  remember that when shopping.  
When we were in Italy five years ago, Italy  still used lire, which were worth 
fifty cents American, so we knew we were  getting bargains in OUR money when we 
bought something at 10 lire (which would  be five dollars), for example.  Now 
with euros being pretty much a 1 to 1  exchange rate, whatever you buy in any 
of the EU countries will cost about the  same amount in dollars, so you know 
how much you're spending quite easily.   The exchange rates are published in 
various places at least daily, and often  change several times a day when the 
stock markets (??? Whatever they call the  markets that deal in currencies???) 
are quite active.
 
And that's the entire extent of my knowledge about money rates! 

Lynda



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