Value Vacations.(in Western Europe )

From: Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine | Date: November 1, 2006 | Copyright information

Byline: Sean O'Neill

TANGO TIME

Nick Guarino is still astonished by the size of the filet mignon he enjoyed last November in Buenos Aires. The meal for two (his wife had lamb chops), including a bottle of Argentine merlot, cost $24. A comparable dinner in New York City would have cost $200, the Maple Shade, N.J., retiree says. Nick and his wife, Charlotte, owed the bargain dinner to the dollar's one-to-three exchange rate with the Argentine peso, a developmen...

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