Prices

Everyone knows that London and Paris are expensive cities, but there are places where you can eat cheap if you look a bit.  We weren't in Amsterdam long, but it was not quite as expensive.  Becaause of the exchange rate being 6.5:1, Copenhagen feels expensive to begin with:  burger for 60 crowns...but when you do the math, its still expensive ($10 burger).  When you tack on taxes to various purchases, they get even more expensive.  In Paris, there was about a 30% tax on food (but not apparently on non-food items).  The wait staff made sure to communicate that the tax was NOT a tip, so add another 5% on top and you increase the cost of your meal by 1/3.  There are also taxes on the food in Denmark, but the receipts are harder to decipher (my Danish is non existant compared to my French and there are not nearly as many cognates in the language that look familar to English speakers).