One of my stocking stuffers was a small outdoor thermometer with a suction cup to stick on the outside of a window. The mercury is measured in Celsius and Fahrenheit. Since most of the places we will visit are on the metric system, I've decided that I should learn a little about how it works. I've checked that thermometer out several times today, and know that when it was 5 Celsius, it was really 41 F.
I'm also trying to think in kilometers. So, if I see a road sign in India that says 78 km, I'll know it is just over 48 mi.
One site to convert is at World Wide metric
Now if I could just learn to think in metrics
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