Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/27

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Subject: RE: [Leica] OT - Large Format UK
From: "Tim Atherton" <tim@KairosPhoto.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 00:06:01 -0600

> Tim.........I was in the UK last July. I recommend that you take a VERY
> fat wallet, a credit card with a VERY large spending limit, and be
> prepared to accept outrageously high prices for absolutely everything
> except milk in the supermarket and beer in every corner pub! Gasoline is
> 250% of the cost of that in mainland Canada. And don't ask for hand
> inspections of film at the airport ....... you might be asked by MI6 to
> accompany them to the back office for a shake down.
>
> jh

Yep - it's been a while since I have been back - but I have a friend who
recently went back and she found many prices were on a par with here in
Yellowknife! So maybe it won't be so bad  :-)

The Canadian Peso goes a lot further in Edmonton than it does here...

Tim A