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Brexit ban on EU ID cards ‘disastrous act of economic self-harm’, says tourism boss
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 21 Mar 2024
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lol
Guess I'll never travel to the UK again. Why would i bother to carry a passport for some island in the north sea?
It's not like they ever adopted a sane currency. At least a passport is useful all over the world, their niche currency is not accepted in any desirable travel destination.
Don't forget that they have Scottish pounds which everywhere outside Scotland are snubbed and you can exchange them for less than the British pound even though in the UK they should be interchangeable. This blows my mind
Could the Scots introduce the €€? 🤔
Scottish but have lived in 5 EU countries and 11 cities in the UK. Never have I heard of this, nor experienced it exchanging in country, either direction. I had a decent root about online and only see this discussed anecdotally; mostly in Reddit posts. I can’t say for certain this isn’t happening, but it does sound like an urban myth of sorts.
In the country I am originally from the exchange rate is actually different and some exchange offices even refuse to take them. And I also have a friend who lived there and who told me the same story that when traveling he was only taking British pounds with him because of difficulties exchanging the Scottish ones.
I have heard of issues using Scottish and NI money while travelling; they’re less recognisable than Bank of England issued notes. I have just never encountered a variable exchange rate on different issued Sterling notes. Was this an EU country?
Yes, it is an EU country, but it was a couple of years ago. So again things might have gotten better and my original statement might be completely wrong.
Thanks for more details. I don’t want to say you’re wrong though, I don’t have the data for that, just anectdotally in my experiences, this hasn’t impacted me.