Having recently been on my horticultural travels through airports in three very different countries – London’s Heathrow airport, New York’s Newark (Liberty International airport) and Cork Airport in Ireland – and having bought a Venti Latte from Starbucks in each I thought I’d compare prices – and convert them all to each currency (using the Yahoo currency converter).
London Heathrow £2.60 = $4.25 = €2.83
New York Newark £2.62 = $4.28 = €2.85
Cork £3.59 = $5.87 = €3.90
Well, the landscape in Ireland may be beautiful, the people welcoming and music great – but the coffee (and the cost of living generally) is high.
Next time - back to plants!
I used to travel to Dublin regularly because of work and I can still remember all the brouhaha in their papers when they became oficially the most expensive country in Europe.
Looks like they still are.
Posted by: VP | October 31, 2009 at 05:31 PM
The problem is that at the bottom end of the scale wages are low so that there's a difficult disparity between the cost of living and incomes.
Of course writers (and other artists) are exempt from income tax in Ireland! Guess which writers don't qualify? - garden writers.
Posted by: Graham Rice | October 31, 2009 at 05:59 PM