Originally Posted by Sir Percival
Interesting hearing all you chaps down south complaining about the internet. I live out in the sticks in North Yorkshire and had to ditch our land line as BT wouldn't supply the Broadband as it was so slow. Alistair, I had to laugh at your comment
"When home broadband was 2-8Mb", if only! At the moment on Mobile Broadband and on a good day I get 1.5 mbps, takes minutes sometimes to open a email. Neilda, I wouldn't venture up this way if I were you, our nearest petrol station only takes cash and he is not alone. The majority of car parks still demand cash so living by your phone alone you would't last long. If only the rest of the country would follow suit, life would become a pleasure again. Hate this unreliable HiTech world.

Sir P
On our recent trip in the Plus 4, France (Brittany), Ireland, North Ireland, Scotland, Lakes District, Canterbury, France, Germany, Switzerland, then home, we took a certain amount of cash in Euro, Pounds, and Swiss Francs, but almost everything was paid using the app on my phone, and my multi-currency Wise account.
It worked everywhere without any problems. The account is now somewhat slimmer but we came back with almost as much cash as we left with. In fact more GBP than we left with because I made a cash withdrawal in order to have some cash in case of necessity, but in the end cash was only used for very small purchases.
Perhaps it is because I have worked a lifetime in information technology but I have no concerns about using it at all. I do have mixed feelings about being tracked by Google but I can turn off the settings if I wish and I do find it interesting to be able to use the technology to follow my movements.
We just had a week in Croatia, at the sea, and now that Croatia has joined the Euro Zone I was able to pay everything, including tolls but not some parking metres, using the app on the phone, without even adding another currency.

Peter

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