George Frederick Watts paintings

George Frederick Watts paintings
Guercino paintings
Drop in currency value since a year ago: 28%The Aussies' unoriginally named currency almost managed parity with the American dollar in recent years. Not anymore. The Down Under dollar now gets you only about 66 cents. Book a spin on a "champagne flight" on the London Eye — the giant Ferris wheel (and millennial white elephant) on the banks of the Thames — for a mere $692. Or don't.
Henry Peeters paintings
. But that opens the Land of Thunder's many delights to the American budget traveler — once, of course, you mortgage your devalued Home for a plane ticket. Round-trip tickets from New York City to Sydney are going for about $1,400. On the upside, when it's winter in the North, it's summer over there. GREAT BRITAINDrop in currency value since a year ago: 23%Admittedly, it's difficult to put England on any kind of budget-travel list, given that a brief, one-way trip on the 145-year-old London Underground will still run you more than $6. But compared with a year ago, when you needed more than $2 to buy a single coin with the Queen of England's face on it, Britain has gotten considerably cheaper — relatively