Re: Best place for travel money?

On Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:45:11 +0100, johannes
<johs@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>"Gizmo." wrote:
>> 
>> "BIGEYE" <tjke.gilmour@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>> news:48b85af3$0$2507$da0feed9@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> > With the rapidly weakening £, where is the best place to get an
exchange
>> > rate reasonably close to the real exchange rate?
>> 
>> From an ATM in the country you're visiting.
>> 
>> Only ****wits buy foreign currency in this country.
>
>Beware that there is a cash withdrawal charge,

There's no cash withdrawal charge if a Nationwide debit card is used
(as has been said repeatedly).

>Secondly, bear in mind that the cash withdrawal limit is not your
>spending limit, it's only about half; always check the cash limit. 

I don't understand what you mean by that.

>However, ATM can be a useful fallback.

It's actually by far the best way of obtaining foreign currency as
long as (sorry for repeating this but it's im****tant!) a Nationwide
debit card is used.  Sensible people who travel abroad will open an
account with Nationwide even if used only for this purpose.

Mike.