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There are LOADS of ATMs throughout France - anywhere you go - and many supermarkets have them.  It's just as easy to use your cards in France as it is in England.  You can use them just as you would at home, to pay in supermarkets, for fuel, and so on - so you don't need to 'change' money as you used to have to do in the old days.  We only withdraw cash, now, for spending in small shops, markets, and for coffees, snacks, etc - for everything else we just pay with our card, as we would at home.

Mind you, thinking about that, we do have a Nationwide card, which is transaction fee and commission fee free - so we don't pay anything in charges, and we get a better exchange rate than the tourist rate.  I suppose if you were paying a transaction fee on top then it might be different.

The card we use in France is a Mastercard and if you go on the mastercard website it will bring up a map of France and give you a list of ATM's in any area. I have been to Annacy there are plenty of ATM's

Carol

We didn't have any problems in Eperney getting cash out.

As a side note, we did the Mercier Champagne tour which was very informative.

Ben

Quote: Originally posted by NLMS on 27/6/2010

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...the only excitement seems to be that in some supermarkets the system recognises that it is not a French Bank Card so proceeds to give instructions in Spanish or Italian!

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