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[email protected] · November 25th 08, 01:47 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article , (Roland
Perry) wrote:

In message , at
05:39:30 on Tue, 25 Nov 2008, remarked:
But the UK in general is much friendlier than most places I visit -
where ticket machines rarely take notes or credit cards, and you
need either coins (the last thing someone arriving in a country for
the first time has) or the local cash-on-smartcard (ditto).

Odd places you go then. It's some time since a UK credit card didn't do
all I needed on arrival.

You probably aren't arriving into the same countries as I am.

But they are getting better. For example, a few of the ticket
machines in Amsterdam now take UK plastic. At one time I think it
was only a subset of debit cards though.

I think the Netherlands is one of the places I've not had problems with UK
plastic, and that was perhaps 20 years ago. Switzerland has been fine
every time I've been there.

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Colin Rosenstiel