Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/03/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]These pictures (of which I like the second one best) illustrate the failure of the system. And the dual-exchange rate system was also typical in the bad old days in Eastern Europe. Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator YNWA > On 02 Mar 2015, at 15:36, Tina Manley <tmanley at gmail.com> wrote: > > PESO: > > I took lots of photos of people lined up to buy rice in the government > stores. These are the last two: > > http://www.pbase.com/image/159318869 > > http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/image/159318871 > > The most confusing thing about Cuba is the money. There are two kinds, > CUCs for tourists and CUPs for locals. In the government stores, you could > only use CUPs. To ride the bici-taxis, the rate for tourists is 1 CUC and > for locals it is 1 CUP. It takes 12 CUPs to make 1 CUC. Makes everything > a little more fair, I guess. > > C&C greatly appreciated. > > Tina > > > -- > Tina Manley > www.tinamanley.com > tina-manley.artistwebsites.com > http://www.alamy.com/stock-photography/3B49552F-90A0-4D0A-A11D-2175C937AA91/Tina+Manley.html > -- > _________________________________________________________________ > Options: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/listinfo/olympus > Archives: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/private/olympus/ > Themed Olympus Photo Exhibition: http://www.tope.nl/ > >