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Subject: Re: currency conversion Posted on: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 13:22:43 +0100

Jack Campin - bogus address wrote:

> >>> We are going to Italy in about 10 days from the USA. A guide book
> >>> we have suggests getting euros from a currency conversion machines
> >>> found at airports, train stations, and elsewhere.
> > > Wow, if these machines exist, I've never seen one!
> > The only one I recall seeing anywhere was at Frankfurt airport.
>
> I've used one at Prague airport a few times. The only problem with
> it is that it doesn't take Scottish notes.

I wouldn't expect it to, either, as many staffed exchange offices
overseas won't accept them.

> A place where that is real pain in the bum: Newcastle Metro. You
> can only buy tickets from coin-op machines. To assist people with
> only notes, there is a change machine. Which doesn't take Scottish
> money.

But this is common- I can't think offhand of any automated machine south
of the border which accepts Scottish notes.

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