getting Euros

Here's my method; I get about USD 100 in Euros from a currency exchange
bureau, not a bank (banks are sooo completely clueless about small
foreign currency transactions} I use AFEX here in SF. Then I arrive
with some moderately small E notes .. forget the 100 euro notes, taxi
drivers don't like them.. When I regain my senses the next morning I
consider dealing with the ATM. I always try to have about $100 US in my
pocket when I leave home in case the van doesn't show and I have to get
a taxi and then on returning from Europe I may be in a state of
collapse and need to pay for a taxi instead of the normal van. I get
good mileage out of that $100 in my years of travel.

Most of the time now I have a substantial amout of Euro left over from
the last trip so it is moot.
bill

Tim Challenger <tim.challenger@aon.at> writes:

> On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 20:20:40 -0700, bill frogg wrote:
>
> > Then I arrive
> > with some moderately small E notes .. forget the 100 euro notes, taxi
> > drivers don't like them.
>
> Depends on the country.
> I use Eur100 notes to pay for single beers or a Mars(tm) bar with not any
> eye batted here.

A lot of places in the Netherlands have little signs saying, roughly,
"Keep your ridiculous German banknotes to yourself, silly touristes, we
only take sensible money here".

Des

On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 08:48:52 +0200, Tim Challenger
<tim.challenger@aon.at> wrote:

>> Then I arrive
>> with some moderately small E notes .. forget the 100 euro notes, taxi
>> drivers don't like them.
>
>Depends on the country.
>I use Eur100 notes to pay for single beers or a Mars(tm) bar with not any
>eye batted here.
>--
>Tim C.

I'm sure they're cheerfully accepted.

Provided, of course, that you don't expect change.

Cheers, Alan, Australia

Des Small wrote:

> Tim Challenger <tim.challenger@aon.at> writes:
>
>
>>On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 20:20:40 -0700, bill frogg wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Then I arrive
>>>with some moderately small E notes .. forget the 100 euro notes, taxi
>>>drivers don't like them.
>>
>>Depends on the country.
>>I use Eur100 notes to pay for single beers or a Mars(tm) bar with not any
>>eye batted here.
>
>
> A lot of places in the Netherlands have little signs saying, roughly,
> "Keep your ridiculous German banknotes to yourself, silly touristes, we
> only take sensible money here".
>
> Des

What do they do, study the serial numbers on the Euro notes and check
where they were printed?


T.

Just glance? I noted even the smallest establishments using an
electronic swipe box to check currency validity this Spring...

Tim K

"Tim Challenger" <tim.challenger@aon.at> wrote in message
news:1125043988.68b3dc84c95f6be1b8da7fe3878b0fca@t eranews...
>
> They do often glance at the notes to check the validity.
> --
> Tim C.

I'm picturing you slowly bobbing up from the bowels of your skiff round
Ten in the morning with that cheap 'tall boy' in one hand, scratching at
your disheveled head with the other... power boaters...gotta love
em...<g>

Tim K

"Martin" <me@> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 12:38:45 +0200, Tim Challenger
> <tim.challenger@aon.at> wrote:
>
> >On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 10:57:29 +0200, Martin wrote:
> >
> >> On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 08:48:52 +0200, Tim Challenger
> >> <tim.challenger@aon.at> wrote:
> >>
> >>>On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 20:20:40 -0700, bill frogg wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Then I arrive
> >>>> with some moderately small E notes .. forget the 100 euro notes,
taxi
> >>>> drivers don't like them.
> >>>
> >>>Depends on the country.
> >>>I use Eur100 notes to pay for single beers or a Mars(tm) bar with
not any
> >>>eye batted here.
> >>
> >> Things are expensive in Austria :-)
> >
> >LOL!
> >Your mind works on a different level to mine :-)
>
> but here I wouldn't dream of paying for a local beer, never mind with
> Eur100 notes :-)
>
> The latest oddity is that the local supermarket is selling half litre
> Bitburger cans for far less than the local fizz and only we seem to
> buy it. The question is how much do we have to buy and drink each week
> to convince the supermarket that there is a demand for it.
> --
> Martin

Tim Challenger <tim.challenger@aon.at> wrote in
news:1125054432.1ab6329f88e17897ce558487133f3330@t eranews:

> surprisingly - German

this might have to do with the fact that Austria was compelled by EU
regulations to stop admission exams to univesities, thus causing a flood of
German students to immigrate

--
QQG

bill frogg Wrote:
> Here's my method; I get about USD 100 in Euros from a currency exchange
> bureau, not a bank (banks are sooo completely clueless about small
> foreign currency transactions} I use AFEX here in SF.
>
> So, naive question, perhaps, but what is a currency exchange bureau an
> how do I go about finding one? Your strategy sounds good (and we'l
> report the largest Euro amount that gets change for a beer i
> Germany.)
>
> Pisce

--
pisces143

"quiqueg" <quiqueg@people.it> wrote in message
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> Tim Challenger <tim.challenger@aon.at> wrote in
> news:1125054432.1ab6329f88e17897ce558487133f3330@t eranews:
>
>> surprisingly - German
>
> this might have to do with the fact that Austria was compelled by EU
> regulations to stop admission exams to univesities,

This can't be the whole story. UK universities still have
admission exams and no EU regulation has stopped them

tim


> thus causing a flood of
> German students to immigrate
>
> --
> QQG

Martin wrote:

> On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 12:34:01 +0100, DDT Filled Mormons
> <deepfreudmoors@eITmISaACTUALLYiREAL!l.nu> wrote:
>
>
>>On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:04:19 GMT, "Timothy Kroesen"
>><TKROESEN@peoplepc.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Even though you've proven yourself wrong in that policy?
>>
>>No I haven't, I have proven myself right.
>>
>>Ok, where do we go from here?
>
>
> Ever decreasing circles?


One way to finally get to a point.