Most of the time cards worked, but one morning in Balzers the bus card reader was down and the driver only wanted coins in Swiss francs. I had to run ...

It got annoying when I only had a 500 KGS note and the marshrutka driver refused it. No card option either. I had to get off at Ala-Too Square and fin...

Kuwait’s buses felt outdated compared to other Gulf countries. I tried to pay on a KPTC bus near Hawally with my Mastercard, and the driver laughed, p...

The one frustration I had was that not every bus tap worked perfectly. On my way to St Ouen’s Bay, the card reader froze and the driver wanted cash in...

The system worked fine with Rav-Kav, but I was frustrated with how many exceptions there were. I topped up at a kiosk near Tel Aviv Central Bus Statio...

I was caught off guard when I hopped on a Bus Éireann service in Kerry, and the driver wanted exact coins. No Leap, no card machine working. I had to ...

The main problem was marshrutkas. Inside Tbilisi, the Metromoney card was great, but once I went to Kazbegi, every minibus driver demanded exact chang...

The bus system confused me at first. I got on a local bus in Nadi with cash and the driver flatly refused it, pointing at the card machine. I had to g...

Honestly, I expected the Faroe Islands to be fully cashless, but there were a couple of hiccups. On the bus from Vágar to Tórshavn, the card reader fa...