Currency exchange while traveling: why do some still carry wads of cash? (page 23 of 28)

I haven’t seen the movie, but I think I get the general idea. 😉

I think you should switch careers and become a comedy screenwriter.

The scene of a woman walking around with 20 000 € in Brazil would be a huge hit. 😄

(Though you’ll need to work on your vocabulary a bit...)

I think you should switch careers to comedy screenwriting.

The scene of a chick walking around Brazil with 20,000 euros would be a hit.

(Though you’ll need to work on your vocabulary...)

I think we should get the cameras ready for the next comedy film the day all ATMs in France are blocked for various reasons—like a cyberattack, an attack on the electrical system, or just a bank collapse (that’ll be wild). I bet that day, some people will line up at my place to trade my paper bills for whatever goods they offer in exchange (I’m gonna make a killing). 🤑

As for working on my vocabulary, since I left school for good after three months in sixth grade, I know I’ve got work to do, but Uncle Google helps me a lot. But I’m happy to take advice from forum members, like being less active on this site. I’m especially thinking of two female pillars here who accuse me of "seeking an audience" when all I do is enjoy conversations—and if there aren’t any, oh well (at least I’ll have written what I think when I felt like it). These same two people had me laughing when they claimed it’s pathological for me to need views, replies, and engagement—yet they’re all over the forum, their personal sites, their travel journals, and their blogs, and I’m forgetting more. 😄 The log in their own eye—ever heard of that? 😏😏

Hello Manon-Christine-Manonlegars

You’re quite the odd one, so odd that every now and then I get the feeling you’ve mixed up your gender—your written language is so masculine. You’re a real firebrand, never parting with your lance, and like the Asian hornet (wreaking havoc on our beehives right now), you sting and tear apart anyone who doesn’t share your opinion. Maybe you could just be a little more peaceful? I promise you—not everyone else is odious and foolish. Even if I hardly come to the forum anymore, even if it often feels like an unpleasant echo chamber, people here are generally calm, open-minded, a bit sarcastic, and rarely mean.

Don’t wear yourself out replying to me—I’m on the forum too little, and by the time I’m back, plenty of water will have flowed under the Pont du Gard.

Hey, I just respond in the same tone when someone attacks me, and there are topics you deliberately avoid where that isn’t the case. For the rest, having spent my childhood, adolescence, and job on a ranch practically surrounded by men, it probably affects my language. And otherwise, as I’ve already said, I’m cool when people are cool with me 😉

That day, it’ll be gold bars we’ll need, not bills...

Not easy to hide in a thong. Gonna have to go back to grandma’s bloomers.

Still, there’ll be one good thing—no internet, so no logorrhea... 😇

That day, it’ll be gold bars we’ll need, not bills...

Not easy to hide in a G-string. We’ll have to go back to grandma’s bloomers.

Still, there’ll be one good thing—no internet, so no logorrhea...

G-strings aren’t my thing at all, nor are grandma’s bloomers. Between the two, there’s the option of hiding money in your underwear, knowing that individual room safes in hotels can be opened at any time by staff resetting the code. As for logorrhea, I prefer to call it "exchanges," and for so-called controversial topics, I see them more as contradictory debates, which I find the most enriching—as long as there’s no "aggression" from the start. Someone on the forum said "my explosive arrival" when talking about me, even though my first post just explained that having been to Cuba after 2021 was a problem for traveling to the U.S. afterward. If the debates got heated, you’d have to see who started it (and stop always blaming me while ignoring others).

You don’t need much to put another euro into the till.

I’ll let you all ponder that.

You don’t need much to put a euro back in the till.

I’ll let you soliloquize.

Even that’s a lie because I wasn’t soliloquizing—I was responding to your requests to exchange messages with me. And if you think that suddenly switching to *vous* will fool anyone who’s reading (if there’s anyone left), when all our conversations were in *tu*, they can tell when you’re addressing me by quoting my name. 🤪 Since you advised me to work on my vocabulary, it’s my turn to invite you to revisit the definition of *soliloquize* 😏. And maybe share with the group the name of your bank card that’s saving you so much compared to cash (original topic) 😄 Take care!!!

Actually, they’re telling you to stop acting like a show-off—it’s not a great look. Because right now, you’re scaring them off, and you won’t get anything good that way, sweetie. 😛

Do you also have a little piggy bank to fill up? 😇

Actually, they’re telling you to stop acting like a show-off—it’s not cool. Because right now, you’re scaring them off, and you won’t get anything good that way, sweetie. 😛

Oh, poor thing! There was a time in my life when I had to manage around forty purebred Camargue horses—spending 15 hours a day galloping through free-roaming bulls with my wrangler, while hordes of tourists screamed like calves because they were so scared 😂. So, it’s not the four female dachshunds from the travel forum barking at me all the time that’ll bother me 😂.

Since it's kinda the topic...

For a while now, I’ve been paying for everything with my card in foreign currencies because it’s more convenient.

I’m heading to Prague soon—does anyone know if cards are accepted everywhere? Any good tips for exchange bureaus? It’s true that having a little cash is better, even if you can get by without it in a lot of places.

The card I take traveling isn’t great for withdrawals. Worst case, I have another one, but I don’t like carrying both.

If possible, I prefer exchanging just 20 €—that’s often enough.

In Warsaw, I had to exchange a bill to pay for a viewpoint, and I ended up with too much change (spent it at the airport 🤦)

Since this is kind of the topic...

For a while now, I’ve been paying for everything with my card in foreign currency because it’s more convenient.

I’m going to Prague soon—does anyone know if cards are accepted everywhere? If not, any good tips for exchange bureaus? It’s true that having a little cash is better, even if you can get by without it in a lot of places.

The card I bring when traveling isn’t great for withdrawals. Worst case, I have another one, but I don’t like carrying both.

If possible, I prefer exchanging just 20 €—that’s often enough.

In Warsaw, I had to exchange a bill to pay for a viewpoint, and I ended up with too much change (spent it at the airport 🤦‍♀️)

Hi! Exchanging currency is more cost-effective when you do it once for your entire trip (a large sum) because the small fees banks charge abroad decrease with the amount. Personally, I keep whatever’s left over when I return, instead of spending it carelessly like you do at the airport. The foreign currency I have left, I’ll exchange on my next trip, waiting for the best rate to win on both transactions. I do it this way because, apart from the first night, I pay for everything else in cash everywhere in the world (which often gets me discounts) 😊

This link might help you.

Since this is kinda the topic...

Lately, I’ve been paying for everything by card in foreign currencies because it’s more convenient.

I’m heading to Prague soon—does anyone know if cards are accepted everywhere? Otherwise, any good tips for exchange bureaus? It’s true that having a little cash is better, even if you can get by without it in a lot of places.

The card I take when traveling isn’t great for withdrawals. Worst case, I have another one, but I don’t like carrying both.

If possible, I prefer exchanging just 20 €—that’s often enough.

In Warsaw, I had to exchange a bill to pay for a viewpoint, and I ended up with too much change (spent it at the airport 🤦‍♀️)

Hi! Exchanging is more cost-effective when you do it once for the whole trip (a large sum) because the small fees banks charge abroad decrease with the amount. Personally, I keep whatever’s left when I return and don’t spend it carelessly, like at the airport. The leftover foreign currency, I’ll exchange it on my next trip, waiting for the best rate to win on both transactions. I just do it this way because, apart from the first night, I pay for everything else in cash everywhere in the world (which often gets me discounts) 😊

I don’t really want to bring back Czech korunas that I’ll use in 10 years...

I didn’t spend it carelessly—I had breakfast because my flight was at 6 a.m....

I’m not particularly up for debating cash vs. card. Let’s just say I have my reasons. Before, I was more into cash, but some experiences made me change my mind...

This link might help you.

Thanks!

Since my mom has a limited credit card for payments, she’d rather exchange a certain amount of cash after all.

Noted the link! 😊

Hi there,

In Prague, you pay for everything by card, even a bottle of water or the restrooms. Elsewhere in the Czech Republic, small restaurants often don’t take cards. Okay, it’s a shame to stay only in Prague—it’s still the epitome of an unpleasant city—but if you’re really set on "sightseeing." In the Czech Republic, you can pay in euros at many shops, supermarkets, under a few conditions: and they’ll give you change in crowns—Lidl, Albert, Penny, and a few others. Exchanging money in Prague without getting ripped off? Doesn’t exist.

Michel

I was recently in Prague and paid for everything in the local currency, except for the accommodation I’d prepaid with CDV. I think paying in euros or dollars in countries that have their own currency just means you end up paying more, since a lot of shopkeepers round up and you lose out in the end.

I never said to pay in euros, though... Anyway, even in France I mostly pay by card.

I already know Prague and wanted to show it to my mom. But if it doesn’t rain, I’d love to do one or two day trips. I’ve also been to Moravia. But that’s not really the point!