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I am wondering if people carry a lot of cash with them. I am basically a cash person and while I have credit cards I am not crazy about using them. So what I'm thinking (and value your opinion on the subject) is to go ahead now and start buying a couple hundred $ worth of Euros now while the rate is lower this year and put in my camino piggy bank- I'm going to need to get them sooner or later anyhow and since there will surcharges at the ATM and exchange rates to deal with later...this may actually be a savings - what are your thoughts? Anything I'm not considering? There isn't a big chance Euros will disappear and we will go back to the Franc or peseta is there? Even if the rate goes down, I'm not planning on carrying 1,000s with me and the change may be what it would be with the ATM charges right?
Hi, I carry about 400 euro and when it's going under 100 euro I make a cash redrawl of 300 euro. You have always money and not to much. Buen Camino, Peter.I am wondering if people carry a lot of cash with them. I am basically a cash person and while I have credit cards I am not crazy about using them. So what I'm thinking (and value your opinion on the subject) is to go ahead now and start buying a couple hundred $ worth of Euros now while the rate is lower this year and put in my camino piggy bank- I'm going to need to get them sooner or later anyhow and since there will surcharges at the ATM and exchange rates to deal with later...this may actually be a savings - what are your thoughts? Anything I'm not considering? There isn't a big chance Euros will disappear and we will go back to the Franc or peseta is there? Even if the rate goes down, I'm not planning on carrying 1,000s with me and the change may be what it would be with the ATM charges right?
... When we went, we got a Charles Schwab debit card. They will reimburse you for all ATM fees at the end of the month. It was a great choice for overseas banking. We only kept what we thought we would need in that account, so it wasn't tied to any of our other checking/savings accounts.
One word of warning a few years ago in Andalucia two ladies of a certain ethnicity approached my wife and I with flowers that they were selling, I am an ex police officer and yet they managed to remove €80 from my wallet and I did not feel a thing. Last year just outside Ponferrada we met two ladies of similar ethnicity who were wanting us to sign something we gave them a wide berth (for the ethnicity check the film The Way) This Jack from Ireland does not carry too many euros now and anyway the Euro may still have some downward travel left in it. If you are going next year we may meet we are planing number three.
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