In a country with a different currency than your home country? Are you continually saying in “my currency” what would that amount to?
Well, you aren’t in your country are you?
Perhaps a better perspective would be, in most cases, to stop that comparison. Why not think local and act local as isn’t that the spirit of travel?
There are necessities you must purchase like food, transportation, admission to cultural and popular touristic sites and those other items not considered a luxury that cost what they cost so are you to starve because a pizza is $4.78 more than you would pay back home or jump with joy that a beer is $1.43 cheaper? Where does all the currency comparison get you especially if you are paying more than you would pay back home? A headache! And if its cheaper than back home a bit of joy. Why not enjoy your beer and pizza if it is a fair local price. For example, recently being in Greece a cappuccino at that place was 5 Euros and another place 3 Euros and at that tourist site 12 Euros with a tiny cookie. So you have points of local comparison which make more sense that the continual comparison in your home country. You aren’t in your home country.
It might make sense if you purchase something beyond necessities like a purse or jewellery but are you comparing apples to apples or apples to oranges? Is a purse in the Florence “leather strip of stores” the same as a purse at Macy’s?
The skill of avoiding currency comparison is like meditation. It doesn’t come easily. It requires practice.
By the way you’d never believe how much a cheeseburger in Porto costs in comparison to your home in Paddlewood, Idaho! $3.00 more. Who needs food anyways?
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