Saturday, April 9, 2011

The Euro


Over here in a lot of the European countries the Euro is the money that you use and since Austria is part of the European Union they use the Euro as well. The Euro has bills and coins. The bills are in denominations of 500, 200, 100, 50, 20, 10 and 5. Each bill gets a little bigger in size as it gets bigger in worth. (for example: the 10 euro bill is bigger than the 5 euro bill, the 100 bill is a little bigger than the 50 euro bill and so on).
The coins are: a 2 euro coin, 1 euro coin, 50 cents, 20 cents, 10 cents, 5 cents, 2cents, and 1 cent (except for the 5-10 cent euro coins, each coin gets a little bigger as it gets bigger in value. 5 cent coin is bigger the 2 cent coin, 50 cent coin is bigger than 20 cent coin, and so on).
On the front of each coin is a common logo, but on the back of the coins, each country that belongs to the European Union and uses the Euro has their own design. Austria has a design that was different than the German one we saw a lot last year. Doesn't matter what the country logo is you can use the coins anywhere the Euro is accepted, probably much like our quarters in the states that have different state logos on them.

I know gas has been getting pretty expensive back home and thought I would take a look at what is over here.
Per liter it is about 1.40 euro.
Per gallon it would be 5.29 euro
(assuming 3.7854 liters to a gallon) and with the exchange rate, if I have done everything correctly, a gallon of gas over here would come to about $7.50 (US dollars).
Good thing we dont have to drive around that much here and the gym and workout facility is only a few minute drive from our place.

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