When landing on a market-based, advantage-seeking planet, you have to know how to get where you're going, while losing as little as you can. The exchange rates at the bus terminal were actually fair, a small spread between the buy and sell points. Bypassing the half-dozen invites for taxi rides on the way out, I went up to the only licensed vehicle I could see, and he quoted ~$12 USD for a 2 mile ride. I left without comment, but checked the other entrances, as it was after dark, and I wasn't exactly sure of the way. Unfortunately, the line of licensed cabs at the doner kebab were all out of service, so I shouldered my bags, checked my compass, and headed off into the night.
As it turned out, everything was safely lit, and I was walking through the town center on a summer evening, so it was quite pleasant. Got a first orientation (I had looked at online maps before arriving, and sketched out a rough plan of the town) about a third of the way there from a tourist map, and then got my bearings from the Catholic cathedral. I checked en route, but since I had written down the second name of the street rather than the first, the polite elderly fellow taking out his trash merely gave a friendly shrug, which I returned with a knowing smile and wave. After 2/3 of the journey, I was reasonably sure I was on the correct road, but had no idea how to mark the right cross-street, so I asked a cab driver at another doner restaurant, who good naturedly gave directions (which were undoubtedly logical for a cab mindset, but pointing back to the main road and saying that it was the next big intersection would have worked as well). I thanked him, but just before setting out, decided to take the cab instead, at the quoted rate of ~$6, as the evening was growing late.
Then a quick walk around. ~$8 for 2L of milk, two packages of crackers, three liters of water, 100g of coffee at the convenience store found on Google Maps, then walking about discovered a proper box of health cookies that would serve for cereal (~0.90) and a loaf of sliced bread (~0.50).
In the end, the destination was reached with sufficient nutrition. The costs were unreasonable, but landing in a place is the journey from unreasonableness to reasonableness. Not to be forced, but to be determinedly advanced towards.