Your bank let you withdraw money with no card? Or ID?
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On occasions, I just show the account number etc in the app.
If I have my driving licence, I will sometimes provide that too if required.
It helps being known on first name terms.
I genuinely can’t remember the last time I needed to withdraw cash. All my purchases are debit or credit card these days.
My barber is mostly card but sometimes cash. Not sure why.
The same excuse Italian taxis give me every time I catch one. Thank god for Uber and Bolt
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The greek approach is what’s needed here, it’s illegal not to be able to take card. Even in a beach hut, in an isolated beach in Corfu, which didn’t even have a toilet, it had a card reader. So there shouldn’t be a reason why that can’t happen here
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Jeez I can’t imagine your life based on what’s read here. I fully expect you cutting about in a white suit top, chinos and boating shoes, flashing cash at bars while drinking margaritas. And possibly taking scraps back for the swans in your lakehouse.
Oh, and probably having both a DB5 and a classic landrover in 'the collection"*
*Jest only, I mean no ill will 
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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.
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Quite often get offered discounts on taxis if we stop at a cash machine along the way instead of paying card
Until folks like us in Northern Ireland and Scotland travel to England and get told we can’t use our £ banknotes 
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“I think you’ll find that’s legal tender”
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My inner pedant always wants to come out with that phrase…
Indeed.
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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.
Here’s how it used to look like:
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Looks like it’s one for the very big spenders.
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I can’t help seeing a pair of knickers stretched between corners of the top card
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The mind boggles 
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.
The HSBC UK Premier site has had a revamp.
Low and behold looks like the card has as well…
Apple Pay
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