1.68 dollars to the pound if you’re selling, 1.78 if you’re buying, ~9% money-changers-in-the-temple fee if you’re exiting the Tube, ~3% fee from your bank if you’re using a US credit card, but Sainsbury’s in Southhampton takes cash dollars at the checkout. As of two weeks ago, anyway.
If you have friends in the UK that you visit back and forth with, give them a stack of dollars when they visit you and have them give you a sack of pounds when you visit them, and cut out the middlemen. I calculate you’ll have approximately 5% more fun.
