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[-] TwanHE@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

I was out camping in Slovenia with the scouts. We stayed in podljubelj and met an older guy (friend our campground owner, important for later) that did tours through the redstone mines and abandoned buildings in the mountains. The tour was to take 3 hours and it cost €15 cash only, so we did a quick calculation of how much we needed and got it from the atm just before the tour started.

We had a great time and got some cool memories climbing down a abandoned mineshafts and lifts while this guy was terrified for our lives😅 So the tour concludes and we go to pay him, and he almost fell over backwards when we handed him €200 which was the price we calculated + a small tip.

Turns out the €15 wasn't per person but instead a flat rate no matter the group size. Fucking €15 for guiding a group of 12 idiots for 3 hours.

We ended up having intense negotiations with the guy for how much he was willing to take. In the end we managed to convince him to take €100 from us and we ended up giving the other €100 to our campground owner who would make sure his stubborn friend didn't turn down "free" money.

I still can't believe that tour was meant to be just €15

[-] Persen@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yep Slovenia is cheap unless you live here.

[-] TwinTusks@bitforged.space -1 points 1 year ago

Lets convert. Currently Euro to CNY (Chinese) is 7.78.

€15 for 3 hours is 116.7CNY, that is 38 CNY/hour, that is mighty high even in China today where the average salary is about 3-4K CNY.

[-] agissilver@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

They were in Slovenia, not china?

[-] TwinTusks@bitforged.space 2 points 1 year ago

I know, I'm just providing a example to show the disparency between economic of two different countries, where as for one person the amount is minimal while for the other is significant.

(Solvenia also uses Euro, so I don't know whats going on over there)

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