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I think they have all gone down today. The £ has been going down nicely as well, but that is our fault as we go away next week and it always goes down for us 🙂

Yes, could be an advantage at times, and a win win situation for both parties. Would also mean he could get hold of some smaller notes as well, which banks are not keen to supply now like they used to do. Customer service has been replaced by amounts of cash already dispensed in plastic bags in head office and delivered to branches. Probably dispensed by machine.

Very good information, though I may have different views on a couple of small issues, one being that we do not consider coins as a bit cheap in favour of paper money tip. We keep a supply of £ coins for tips (and often walk into a bank to get a supply of them - for room service on cruise ships as well as locally) there are times when £5 is too much, but a few coins are fine.and as any regular local meals for us are in the £20-£30 range. Likewise no probs giving a note and some coins, it is often done. I suspect the comment about staff in tourist areas possibly being able to get foreign cash changed as they may have an amount of it, may be more to do with the fact John lives on the South Coast where they do have more continentals visiting, but in the north that is really not the case, even in tourist areas or the big cities, (though I could perhaps see that in London). Small amounts of foreign cash is not worth changing because of the cost and even if they did have more they would still loose an exchange rate, though in a large hotel they may sort something if the tips are pooled.

We are going to Greenland in June and visiting a number of ports, some of which we have not visited previously. The ports we have not visited are Nuuk, Sisimiut and Ilulissat (where we spend two days). Can anyone advise if there are any particular excursions which are worthwhile doing in those ports. Our excursions have not been published as yet, but are likely to be out soon. Any advise will be greatly appreciated.

We are due to dock in Stockholm late May on Aurora. The Stockholm port site has us docking in Vartahamnen, which on a map appears to be 4km as the crow flies, but probably not much more than 5 km by road. P&O have a "Stockholm on your Own", which costs £32pp which sounds OTT, but we have not been to Stockholm previously so no idea if it is possible to get there independently otherwise and if it is, how difficult that would be.. We suspect taxis will be quite pricey and there could be a lot of traffic on the roads, so thinking it may be worth going with the £32pp - at least it is for 6 hours, though the details do not say how long we would actually be in the city. Any advice would be appreciated, including if it would be just as well to book an organised tour, in which case are there any P&O trips you would recommend, or is the city easy to get around once you are there? Barbara