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Information and Services in Turkey Section => Banks, Interest, Money Transfers, Insurance => Topic started by: johntaylor49 on January 02, 2014, 14:31:10 PM

Title: Exchange Rate surprising?
Post by: johntaylor49 on January 02, 2014, 14:31:10 PM
Surprised nobody has commented on exchange rate, approaching 3.6 today, how high will it go I wonder,
tempted buy £1000 of Lire I must say!

JT
Title: Re: Exchange Rate surprising?
Post by: engineerdave on January 02, 2014, 14:36:34 PM
I see that it went up last year a lot but did the prices go up as well?
Title: Re: Exchange Rate surprising?
Post by: JohnF on January 02, 2014, 14:41:33 PM
http://www.calis-beach.co.uk/forum/topicseen./banks_interest_money_transfers_insurance/just_hit_3.30_53532.0.html

JF
Title: Re: Exchange Rate surprising?
Post by: johntaylor49 on January 02, 2014, 14:45:14 PM
Aha, wrong place then, thanks  :)
Title: Re: Exchange Rate surprising?
Post by: scorcher on January 02, 2014, 16:29:53 PM
And I'm guessing you mean lira JT.
Title: Re: Exchange Rate surprising?
Post by: Colwyn on January 02, 2014, 16:53:59 PM
I'm not in Turkey again until September so I am putting off buying lira until then - by which time it will be £1 = 3.9857 TL. Well that is what my bunch of seaweed hung over the sink is predicting anyway.
Title: Re: Exchange Rate surprising?
Post by: Ian on January 02, 2014, 16:54:41 PM
Lol - that's as good as anything computerised :D
Title: Re: Exchange Rate surprising?
Post by: Diverbaz 1 on January 02, 2014, 17:06:58 PM


May go to millions to the pound  ;)  :)  ;)
Title: Re: Exchange Rate surprising?
Post by: Scunner on January 02, 2014, 17:10:58 PM
Like that could ever happen  :D
Title: Re: Exchange Rate surprising?
Post by: LeeGlo on January 03, 2014, 16:35:57 PM



May go to millions to the pound   ;)   :)   ;)
may go to millions to the pound   ;)   :)   ;)

Oh bugger not 250K for a cup of coffee again.
Title: Re: Exchange Rate surprising?
Post by: Colwyn on January 03, 2014, 16:52:11 PM
Light blue touchpaper and ..............
Title: Re: Exchange Rate surprising?
Post by: desmartinson on January 04, 2014, 07:27:21 AM
Sitting in the sunshine yesterday with a pint and 20 fags, ive  just worked out at the exchange rate now my pint is £1.68 and 20 fags is also £1.68, my favourite tipple of wine, Angora is £4.21 a bottle now, Anyone tell me what a pint and 20 cigs would cost me in the UK now.  ;)
Title: Re: Exchange Rate surprising?
Post by: Hamlet on January 04, 2014, 08:38:30 AM
1 x arm for the cigs & 1 x leg for the pint  8)
Title: Re: Exchange Rate surprising?
Post by: AOK on January 04, 2014, 08:48:51 AM
Approx £11 for 20 fags and a pint :(
Title: Re: Exchange Rate surprising?
Post by: tiggsy on January 04, 2014, 08:52:07 AM
Approx £11 for 20 fags and a pint :(

The sunshine………….Priceless!
Title: Re: Exchange Rate surprising?
Post by: desmartinson on January 04, 2014, 09:01:25 AM
AOK, £11 for cigs, you`re joking surely, how much of that is Tax do you think. :o
Title: Re: Exchange Rate surprising?
Post by: Colwyn on January 04, 2014, 09:20:46 AM
Des, that was for both. Benson & Hedges a mere £8.38 at Tesco. Far too cheap. They should whack another couple of quid on and use the proceeds to subsidize pub-sold beer in the interests of the community (£3 for best bitter at my local).
Title: Re: Exchange Rate surprising?
Post by: desmartinson on January 04, 2014, 09:50:10 AM
Yes but that's Bristol Colwyn, no one goes to Bristol, I did pass through it once, thankfully.  ;)
Title: Re: Exchange Rate surprising?
Post by: bewva on January 04, 2014, 11:12:07 AM
Don't know about fags but last our local does Fosters or John Smiths bitter at £2.50 /pint, Carling or Tettly bitter at £2.90 / pint. There are cheaper pubs (not dumps either) by us doing Carlsberg at £2.20 / pint.
Title: Re: Exchange Rate surprising?
Post by: Scunner on January 04, 2014, 11:26:27 AM
Don't know about fags but last our local does Fosters or John Smiths bitter at £2.50 /pint, Carling or Tettly bitter at £2.90 / pint.

Compared with £2.90ish a litre in Tesco
Title: Re: Exchange Rate surprising?
Post by: Colwyn on January 04, 2014, 11:31:10 AM
I suppose this thread was bound to deteriorate into the price of Efes Tetleys.
Title: Re: Exchange Rate surprising?
Post by: Karennina on January 04, 2014, 13:47:50 PM
I was in a newsagent's the other day and was gobsmacked to see 20 silk sluts (silk cuts purple) were a whopping £8,55 per pack :o
Title: Re: Exchange Rate surprising?
Post by: desmartinson on January 04, 2014, 13:57:24 PM
I used to smoke super kings black Karennina, be interesting to know how much they are now?.
Title: Re: Exchange Rate surprising?
Post by: KKOB on January 04, 2014, 14:21:11 PM
Are you still allowed to ask for them if they're b**ck ?
Title: Re: Exchange Rate surprising?
Post by: desmartinson on January 04, 2014, 15:04:22 PM
At over £8.00 a packet Kkob I don't think I would ask for them at all, rather come back home to Turkey and save money.  :)
Title: Re: Exchange Rate surprising?
Post by: Colwyn on January 04, 2014, 15:40:15 PM
Of course the prices for cigs being quoted is for stuff sold in shops. None of the smokers I know buy their cigs/rolling tobacco in shops. The Government health warnings on their packets are in Spanish, Dutch, Walloon (and, I guess, various Eastern European languages I cannot identify); English is quite a rarity. Makes me smile when smokers tell me their taxes are keeping the NHS running. They may be sponsoring somebody's health service but it sure isn't the British one. Wednesday is the day for under-the-table sales at my local.
Title: Re: Exchange Rate surprising?
Post by: desmartinson on January 04, 2014, 16:13:51 PM
Colwyn, what on earth are you talking about? chill out, sit yourself down and have a pint of tetleys (3% vol) and a packet of fags, only £11.00. Happy Easter. ;D ;D
Title: Re: Exchange Rate surprising?
Post by: fishman on January 04, 2014, 20:01:10 PM
I need to pay some money for work being done on my apartment can anybody tell me what the lira rate is in the main banks in Fethiye so I can work out how much sterling I need to send out
Thanks for your help !!
Title: Re: Exchange Rate surprising?
Post by: kayakebab on January 05, 2014, 08:09:02 AM
Look on xe webpages and that's near enough the rate you will get in the banks.

Why is this always about fags and booze?
Why does no one ever compare the price of fruit and veg?

I still shake my head in amazement and smile when I get a huge bag of fruit for around 50p.
Little things that make me happy.
Title: Re: Exchange Rate surprising?
Post by: AndyLin on January 05, 2014, 09:17:17 AM
Fishman. Went to the Seker bank on Thurs and got 3.57.
Title: Re: Exchange Rate surprising?
Post by: Jacqui Harvey on January 05, 2014, 11:25:20 AM
Look on xe webpages and that's near enough the rate you will get in the banks.

Why is this always about fags and booze?
Why does no one ever compare the price of fruit and veg?

I still shake my head in amazement and smile when I get a huge bag of fruit for around 50p.
Little things that make me happy.

Well said, I totally agree.  It's always lovely to go to the markets and get such fresh fruit and vegetable for a few lira.
Title: Re: Exchange Rate surprising?
Post by: Scunner on January 05, 2014, 11:37:35 AM
It's not just that - some of us bang on about remembering when a bottle of gin was £2 and the like but even today, there aren't many places where you can get a very good meal and a stunning view like Shaka, King's Garden and many others offer, for the price you pay. We stayed at the Ece Saray overlooking the marina and Fethiye bay last April. Ok not peak time but where else in the World can you get a hotel like that with a view like that for (from memory) £67 per night for the two of us including breakfast at the rooftop restaurant?