Agree. I carried about that too. No problems. Never short as a card did the trick as well.1000. Cash is king on the Camino.
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Agree. I carried about that too. No problems. Never short as a card did the trick as well.1000. Cash is king on the Camino.
+JapanAs to cheques, they are still widely used in France. In supermarkets some people pay by cheque relatively small purchases. I pay my GP by cheque and send a cheque to the company doing my garden.
And it still happens to me occasionally in the UK in a shop or restaurant that the machine does not recognise my French bank card and wants my signature.
For me, I don’t see it as a moral or ethical dilemma, but for small business owners on the camino and elsewhere, I like to offer a choice when I can - it’s up to them to choose what they preferAs this question of paying by (credit) card versus paying by cash - when there is a choice between the two - is apparently sometimes viewed as a kind of moral / ethical dilemma and decision,
If you like you can also hear China to the list, according to Google. I did say that I couldn't think of any others, but naturally that didn't mean that there weren't.+Japan
+HK
+Taiwan
+Seoul
You still have cheques in France but cheques issued by a French bank are useless in Spain: They are either not accepted or if they are the fee for cashing a cheque from another EU country will be extremely high.When France, a country which prides itself (herself?) on the widely used digital systems, tried to finish with cheques there was a protest (a French speciality) and voilà, we have them still!!
Oh, I remember the arguments against decimalisation, such as a loss of arithmetics skills, and I now start to wonder about the arguments against card payment ...Was this before you went decimal
Yes. Cider was 10d a pint. After decimation it was 10p. Good beer was two shillings and sixpence, suddenly it was 25p.Was this before you went decimal(have I got this right?)?