One of the handy things about the European Union is that you can now send a letter to anywhere in Europe for the same price. Each country's postal charges are different but the cost of a letter to any other European country should be the same. It's one of the many subtle little ways in which the Union is binding the countries of Europe together.
I wonder if the Royal Mail get it, though. They used to have a Euro stamp you could buy, with an 'E' to indicate that it was valid for all over Europe. The other day I went in to buy a stamp for a letter to Ireland.
The charge for a Euro letter is now 42 pence. And the current 42 pence stamp now features, what?
The Battle of Trafalgar.
As part of their current commemorative series, the Royal Mail are featuring stamps of this battle (example above), in which the English fleet defeated the French and the Spanish.
That'll show those damned foreigners.