Good Morning! Welcome to our daily briefing for Wednesday 20 February 2013.
Avoid the Polish Baltic coast today.
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Daily pic: Seasoned foreign city drivers that we are, we came a serious cropper in Belgrade, Serbia. It wasn’t the one-way system, heavy traffic or machine gun toting police on every street corner (they were very helpful actually). It was the exclusive use of the Cyrillic alphabet… Even holding the map up next to the street signs was hopeless what with varying fonts and upper and lower cases. We were just about to give up and go to Budapest when Google Maps came to the rescue. Easy. We laugh about it now.
WEATHER
A Dangerous Weather Warning for the Polish Baltic coast, otherwise milder weather than yesterday. For the latest click here. For the weather-where-you-are click here.
Warning: Polish Baltic Coast, very high winds with snow and ice.
Also, high winds and ice/snow throughout Germany, Austria and parts of Slovakia.
High winds in northern Norway and Sweden.
Storms in south west Spain and northern Italy.
Winter sports – still good. For the latest click here.
CURRENCY
Figures from end of play Tuesday 19 February. Indicative ‘travel money’ rates from BBC. Guide only.
£1 buys €1.1340 – €1 is 88p – €5 is £4.40.
You get slightly fewer Euros per Pound than yesterday. For other currencies click here.
CROSSING THE CHANNEL
As of 08:30 GMT, all services running perfectly. For the latest BBC Ferry Travel News click here.
For the latest updates by operator click links below:
P&O – Condor Ferries – Brittany Ferries – Transeuropa Ferries – Eurotunnel – Stena Line
DFDS – Dover Strait – Western Channel – North Sea
TRAFFIC
For live traffic information in the following countries click the links below:
Austria – Belgium – France – Germany – Netherlands – Switzerland
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