Did you not agree with my reply to YEGGuy above???

I just looked up an expense claim for Sept 2002. The exchange rate was $1.571, it is now $1.607. That is hardly hyper inflation!

Now my German friends claim that the domestic prices are 1euro, when they used to be 1dm. I don't believe it. I stayed at the Westin in Berlin back in September for $179cdn per night. Now it can up to $400cdn per night if you are there at a busy time as it could be anywhere. The thing to watch out for in Europe is avoiding busy-busy times (like the book fair, or auto show in Frankfurt) as the prices double for accommodation. But, groceries, meals, beer, chocolate bars, have not changed too much in the years that I have been going there.

It cannot be the dollar exchange that dropped Air Canada's loads by 8%.