For holidaymakers returning home to the UK from Europe with a wallet full of euro currency, Blogtelopia has good news for you.

Businesses across the UK are gradually starting to adopt the euro meaning that you can start spending in selected outlets.

Emerging euro-towns include Bournemouth, where around fifty outlets have agreed to take the new currency.

Also Swanage on the Dorset coast also accepts the Euro, as does the little village of Rye in West Sussex.  There’s also a nightclub in Birmingham and a few spots in Edinburgh’s Royal Mile that are euro happy.

For everyone else, pop into your local Marks & Spencer which now also accepts euros.

And if you live anywhere near Dunster in Exmoor, you can spend euros as easily as pounds, as this village has laid claim to being the first place to openly accept euro as well as pound (the same exchange rate applies).

So it seems that UK businesses are becoming early euro adopters – it’s just such a shame that with the fall in the British Stirling, the UK Government are so slow to catch on.

Thursday 6 August 2009 13:34 | Published by a.smith | Categoriy: Travel News