A new place to spend euros: Estonia

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Alas. Yes, I hear more and more from friends in newly-Euro'd countries how it's hiking prices. Spain in particular....

And there's the culture thing. I know the unified currency is (in theory) a more efficient way of doing things - but there was something thrilling about handling and learning different kinds of money. Money is like language - it tells you a lot about a country, in all sorts of sly ways. And it feels excitingly wrong - too heavy, too light, the wrong shape, the wrong size. It's yet another part of feeling like you've truly gone Elsewhere.

Estonia has been experiencing an information technology boom for the last decade. For example, it enjoys perhaps the most extensive WiFi coverage of any European country. I wonder how all these I.T. startups feel about the arrival of the Euro.

Bah humbug.

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