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Thursday Oct 17, 2019 #
7 AM
Pool running 45:00 [3] 0.7 km (1:04:17 / km)
Hips sore today so swapped out with my planned Friday session. Seemed to be working reasonably well once I was in the water (and dodged most of the showers from above).
Continuing to get things ready for my trip (and scrambling to get everything done that I want to get done before I go away). One item I was attending to was getting some US$ cash (needed for the Laos visa fee). In this process I discovered that my bank - even its main CBD branch - no longer keeps foreign cash unless you order it in advance, but they helpfully pointed me to somewhere which did. I was expecting a rip-off on venturing into one of the old rabbit-warren multi-storey buildings on Swanston Street full of offices for outfits with names like Honest Immigration Services, but in fact the deal I got was unusually good (only a couple of % off the financial-market rate, and no extra fees) - perhaps the lesson is to go where the immigrants go and not the tourists. (If you go to one of the foreign-exchange booths in tourist areas in Australia you will do well to emerge with more than 75% of the money you should have had).
Continuing to get things ready for my trip (and scrambling to get everything done that I want to get done before I go away). One item I was attending to was getting some US$ cash (needed for the Laos visa fee). In this process I discovered that my bank - even its main CBD branch - no longer keeps foreign cash unless you order it in advance, but they helpfully pointed me to somewhere which did. I was expecting a rip-off on venturing into one of the old rabbit-warren multi-storey buildings on Swanston Street full of offices for outfits with names like Honest Immigration Services, but in fact the deal I got was unusually good (only a couple of % off the financial-market rate, and no extra fees) - perhaps the lesson is to go where the immigrants go and not the tourists. (If you go to one of the foreign-exchange booths in tourist areas in Australia you will do well to emerge with more than 75% of the money you should have had).