Well, it has officially happened and the Slovenian Tolar (or SIT as it is often referred too) is officially retired from every shopping till and wallet in this country as of today.
Today a friend and I were down town Ljubljana and had some SIT left that we thought would be good to get rid of by buying some prepaid Mobile phone credit and bus tokens at a kiosk. No such luck. We might as well have been in another country, all they want here is “Uros”.
There was little use trying to persuade her otherwise so we were off to the Post bank where they took it gladly in exchange for some “shrunken money” Euro bills that look so out of place in our wallets now. I guess those dreams of one day being a millionaire (in Tolars it only took 239,640 Euros) now are just got a little bit harder to reach, 239.64 times harder to be exact.
I kind of miss “looking like I had money” once in a while, as ten Euros was 2,396 SIT and big folds of paper that hanged out of my wallet, now when I have ten Euros, all I got is ten Euros. I must say Euro money is kind of boring and generic looking without and famous person on or any Sloven history or national identity attached to them, but such is globalisation.
[...] looking back on my time here, three months turned into nearly six, my SIT turned into Euros, hikes turned into history lessons, people I meet become friends, and an old house become a home. [...]