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Dollar Angst in Europe

With crude oil rising and the dollar falling, I knew my business trip to Europe would be expensive. I had no idea; however, that a few tourist items for the kids would total £49 at London Heathrow ($100), or that a glass of house white on the Nyhavn canal in Copenhagen would be 45 kr ($9.50). (That would be wine served on the sailors' "naughty side" to the north.)ImageThank goodness both Britain and Denmark discourage gratuities. Apparently their service workers are paid better than their American counterparts at least that's what I was told and how I have now rationalized it. Tomorrow we leave for a corporate training site in Margretetrop, Sweden, which is euphemistically described as a "sequestered venue in the Swedish countryside." I think I'll take advantage of the rural location to catch my own lutefisk for the week, if only to save enough American dollars for the taxi back to the airport, about 250 kr. ($42). I'm not bumming yet, though. I have portioned off enough dollars in my socks for my return to Lawrence, where I am planning to celebrate solvency with an El Mezcal burrito and margarita for under $10.