They still say the card machine is broken. I had this in Athens and I could see it worked. I told him and he muttered things and let us use card.
In Rome there’s a fixed airport price and we still got charged more “for traffic”. When we challenged it, it wasn’t worth the little extra (in fact probably with a tip it’s what he would have got anyway) so we left it but I find any places that have strict taxi rules in place have them in place because of bad practice, and a law often seems not to stop that practice in reality.
National Bank of Panama is celebrating 120 years, and they revamped one of their credit cards as part of the celebration. Really liking the new design.
For my first visit to England a bit over a decade ago, I’d gotten Bank of Ireland notes from a friend, and, as a first time visitor from the States, that was a fun time. I had one success, at a very overpriced Vietnamese place in London. After the third refusal I think I actually got a bit frustrated and called Bank of Ireland’s London branch to ask why this was happening, at which point I finally learned how to swap them out for Bank of England notes.
Looks nicer in wallet to be fair. Curious about “accidentally” losing my card but can’t imagine it’ll be the new stock so soon. Might do it in a month.
