How do you make your painfully weak dollars go further? Take them to a euro-free zone.

By Gary Lee

There's a smart way for U.S. travelers to Europe to cope with the pinch on the pocketbook caused by the euro: Don't use it.

Pay in Polish zlotys. Or Hungarian forints. Or Bulgarian levs.

For Americans, those and other non-euro currencies often stretch twice as far as the euro.

Non-Euro Europe, continued