As we are preparing for our trip to London I started watching, with great displeasure, the demise of the US Dollar. However, August has brought some pleasant changes. (Note, this is a chart of how many £ GBP’s you can get for $1 USD. Higher is better for us.)

Daily chart of GBP per USD from June through early August, showing a sharp rise to 0.55 after hovering near 0.50.

Seeing these recent moves I’m feeling that I picked a good day to wire the 2nd half of our apartment payment as well as the £1,000 security deposit. We are at the best point of the entire year.

GBP per USD daily line chart from Sep 2007 to Aug 2008 showing rate rising sharply to 0.52 in August after a year near 0.47.

Charts are all from my alma mater BigCharts.com.