To be honest, I don’t often stray into the Sunday Times Travel supplement, so I’m not sure whether their ‘Holiday Money’ table – setting out the exchange rates between Sterling and a host of foreign currencies, as well as the position they were in a year ago – is a regular inclusion or not. But it caught my eye this morning. Sure, the fall of Sterling is hardly news, but we often hear about it in terms of dollars and Euros. Seeing the prices against, say, the Kenyan shilling or the Argentinian Peso really hammers the point home. So I’ve reprinted the Sunday Times table below. The numbers in brakets show the exchange rate a year ago:
| Country | Currency | Rate |
| Argentina | Peso | 4.89 (6.04) |
| Australia | Dollar | 2.14 (2.11) |
| Brazil | Real | 3.09 (3.12) |
| Canada | Dollar | 1.73 (1.92) |
| Egypt | Pound | 7.16 (9.70) |
| Eurozone | Euro | 1.08 (1.29) |
| Hong Kong | Dollar | 10.82 (14.82) |
| India | Rupee | 63.26 (69.57) |
| Kenya | Shilling | 104.24 (129) |
| Malasia | Ringgit | 4.99 (6.06) |
| Mexico | Peso | 18.87 (19.26) |
| New Zealand | Dollar | 2.71 (2.37) |
| Norway | Krone | 9.62 (10.53) |
| South Africa | Rand | 13.84 (14.41) |
| Sweden | Krona | 11.62 (12.32) |
| Switzerland | Franc | 1.63 (2.09) |
| Thailand | Baht | 45.98 (58.77) |
| Turkey | New lira | 2.26 (2.23) |
| UAE | Dirham | 5.05 (6.87) |
| USA | Dollar | 1.40 (1.91) |
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