Our oldest Granddaughter just got back from a month in Italy and the euros are not cheap. It dropped while she was there and has dropped more. For $1,000.00 you get $700.00 in euros. Take lots of money, phone calls to the States are very costly. She kept in contact with me by sending messages to me through my facebook account. Didn't cost a thing, she kept her phone on airplane mode. She bought an Italian phone to keep in contact there with the others. She was there for college. We thought our money would go further over there, not true.