[Leica] OT: Eurotrip Question

[gregj_lorenzo at hotmail.com (Greg Lorenzo)]

Farmers are usually preferred over vikings... even if they charge you 5% 
more.

 

Greg Lorenzo

Calgary, Canada
 
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> To: lug at leica-users.org
> Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:11:16 +0200
> Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: Eurotrip Question
> 
> Daniel, that is not my experience. I have had no problems with my 
> Dutch or Spanish credit cards there. I do have a Dankort, actually, 
> but only because a couple of the cheap gas station chains (OK, Jet) 
> only take those. For everything else I use my normal foreign cards.
> 
> Nathan
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> On Jul 23, 2009, at 9:32 PM, Daniel Ridings wrote:
> 
> > Visa and Mastercard don't work well in Denmark. It's rather
> > provincial. You have to have "Dankort" (cards issued in Denmark) and
> > they charge 5% on every purchase if you use Visa or Mastercard that
> > isn't issued in Denmark. It's a farmer community with all that
> > entails.
> >
> > Just take a few crowns and skip that country as soon as you can. It'll
> > be just fine.
> >
> > Plastic money is best everywhere else. Denmark is an exception.
> > They're way behind. They like it like that.
> >
> > Daniel
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Greg Lorenzo<gregj_lorenzo at 
> > hotmail.com 
> > > wrote:
> >>
> >> My number two daughter Victoria is off to Europe for two weeks in 
> >> early August. This will be her first trip outside of North America 
> >> and she will be visiting all the Baltic countires from Denmark to 
> >> Finland. Most of these countries don't use the Euro, with Russia 
> >> using rubles, and other various kroner's in use elsewhere, etc.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> I'm buying her Euros and some of Denmark's Kroner (she deploys from 
> >> Denmark). Can she get by with just these two currencies in all the 
> >> non-Euro countries?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> She has a Visa charge card and I'm also thinking of sending her 
> >> with US dollars as a fall back if necessary.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> To be slightly on topic: she is planning on taking my R7 and one 
> >> lens.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> TIA for any suggestions.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Greg Lorenzo
> >>
> >> Calgary, Canada
> >>
> >>
> >>
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