Travel can be expensive. Well, you can make local trips for the cost of a gallon of petrol, yes, and that’s a ridiculous price, though bottled water can cost more. Sorry, I digress. The point is that any substantial journey can cost a good deal.
This effects the writer, of course, but I want to focus on the traveller. I recently went to the USA where petrol – gas – is one of the few things that is less expensive than here. I’m digressing again. Furthermore, dare I mention the ‘B word’? The chaos of Brexit over recent months has seen the amount of overseas currency we get for our pounds drop like the proverbial stone and the dollar has been amongst the worst examples. Other countries can be worse: when I first went to Thailand, albeit many years ago, I got 100 Thai Baht to the pound but it has been going down ever since. When I was there in January 2019 year it was 47 and as I write this it is at a catastrophic 34. That’s a more than 20% drop in less than a year. One wonders how so many people travel at all.