I stayed in an eco-hostel on the coast near Pula and they only accepted card. They don’t handle cash because they donate from card payment records. I ...

I stayed in Split for a week and had to use the local buses to reach nearby beaches and the ferry port. Some of the buses let you buy tickets at the s...

This tripped me up my first day in Zagreb. Used a Zagrebacka ATM and it offered me a conversion into USD with some friendly-looking green buttons and ...

Flew into Pula for a week in Istria and honestly was glad I waited to take out cash. The airport only had one ATM and it looked like one of those inde...

Interesting thing is, my Wise card actually worked pretty well throughout my trip. I was in Zadar, Trogir, and down to Makarska. At first it got decli...

I went all over the Dalmatian coast and didn’t use much cash until I got to smaller towns. In Dubrovnik and Split, I used my N26 card pretty much ever...

We were in Rovinj for ten days and only used taxis twice, both from the same local number our hotel gave us. Neither of them accepted card. The driver...

I’m living in Uppsala right now and I’ve seen this happen to other international students and tourists too. Sometimes the problem isn’t the card itsel...

Just wrapped up a three-week trip through Sweden and my average spend was about 550 SEK per day. That included SL metro in Stockholm, Bolt rides occas...