Foreign Currency

Foreign Currency is really that.  It is foreign.  When travelling though, as opposed to in, other conutries, the best way to pay is with their cash.  AMkes sense until you try to determine how much cash do you need? After all, the money chnagers (shades of the NT) are there to take your money and put it in their pockets.  Tou pay them to give and you pay them to take!  Now UK is sort of easy.  Figure out what you would spend at a Canadian Airport in $ and then add 10% and that is the pounds.  But euros?  Do you need more and or less than?  Of course, if your final destination is EUR then go Euros.  You can always takes US $ but that may give the impression that you are Amercian.  If you are then great, if not you need to wear a maple leaf!  Then there are the currecies that no one has outside of the country.
Reminds me of Zimbabwe many years ago.  You were not allowed to bring in a lot of foreign currency is cash and could only bring in about $50 Z.  The currecny exchange at Vic Falls was about 2 miles from the border, the insurance place was about 1/2 mi.  You had to get Zim insurance before driving in the country and it cost $100Z.  They only took $Z but legally you could not bring in more than $50Z.  You get the picture.

Best part of travel is shopping with foreign currecies (multiple) and teying to do the conversions in your head.  It will cost me some many $ Cdn or euros and I can get it in Rand cheaper elsewhere but possibly they will give me a deal if I pay in ...

In the meantime, remember the amount of credit card thefts and fraud.    Oh my head aches

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