[Noisebridge-discuss] Best strategy and currency for foreign travel..

[joel jaeggli]

Depends, outside what passes for the western financial system USD And
euro's can generally be trivially converted in to local currency and
ATM's are outside of major city centers, and toursit destinations
somewhat hard to come by. In various african countries I generally carry
cash.

plastic is pretty much ubiquitious in japan and western europe.

I actually only used about 30,000 yen worth of currency for a  two week
trip in the spring to japan, roughly what I'd spent while not traveling.

Martin Bogomolni wrote:
> Over the next year, I'm going to be traveling a lot more
> internationally than I have in a long time.   It's gotten me thinking
> about how to handle money, and what modern tech has done to how
> 'things are done.'
> 
> It used to be that a person would get traveler's checks, or perhaps
> withdraw money (and incur a buy/sell loss) in the currency of the
> target country.    Today we have debit cards, credit cards, paypal,
> and access to money in all sorts of forms worldwide.
> 
> So, what do you do when you travel?  What's the current "smart
> strategem" when traveling to get the best bang for the buck, and still
> travel safe and be prepared?
> 
> -Martin
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