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Further advise to the above, sil vous plait!
As a 50 squid note is not always acceptebale in the UK, what paper money isn't on the continent?
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Only been to Spain thrice or three times, as the young ones say. Never new you had to have a paper from a notary, That office must be mega busy in Benidorm, with all those brits outside. Assuming that is, the hotels have confiscated their passports and daren't go to the beach otherwise.
Only pulling your leg, surely dosn't apply to everyone. Can understand Brit residents having a back up plan. But week-end tourists!
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come here &have your eyes opened Atm's pay out inCommon decency says that you do not offer a note larger than sat €20 to pay for a baguette (that is how to get rid of shrapnel). Many shops will have signs telling you what value notes are not acceptable but I have never even seen a €100 let alone a €200 or €500.
A bit of info about Spain which may help.
In Spain you must by law carry Proof of ID with you at all times.
For Spanish citizens that's easy; they just carry their National ID card.
For Brits (who unlike most other European countries citizens don't have a national ID card system); there are only two forms of such ID that must always be accepted under Spanish law: your passport, or a Notary produced copy of that passport on their special Notary paper, signed and sealed by that Notary. These are called "Copias Compulsadas".
(A Notary is a sort of official Recorder of legal transactions/documents in Spain. There are Notaries in every town around the country).
You can get such a copy done at any Notaries office here in Spain, usually whilst you wait, for maybe 4 or 5 euros. You can fold it (it comes on A4 paper) but don't plastic-film cover it or alter it in any other way.
Despite a lot of Authorities/shops/petrol stations etc being prepared to accept your EU photo driving licence as proof of ID, it's actually not an acceptable form of ID in law here
Same goes for any other documents in your MH - you can use Notary-produced copies of any of them and they are just as valid as the originals. Because it's an utterly balls-aching rigmarole to obtain replacements versions of Spanish vehicle documents here, millions of people get Copias Compulsadas of them and carry those instead, with the originals kept safe at home.
Other docs to carry in the MH:
Driving licence.
V5.
MOT certificate.
Proof of Insurance (European Accident report form is also useful).
come here &have your eyes opened Atm's pay out in
50's . I've seen 2 people one after the other in an estanco/bar pay for coffee's with a 500€ note. No one would bat an eye lid at anyone paying with 50's here.
Not being pedantic but they actually did away with the requirement for spanish nationals to carry ID around 2012.
Most still do ,& you are required to be able to prove who you are, but most out running/cycling/walking around here wouldn't be carrying anything, Same goes for me. I have never carried my passport as it is too much trouble if it got lost. Nor have I ever carried a copy. I asked the question of the Guardia & was told that my spanish driving licence, replete with NIE number , was perfectly sufficient, Passport was only required when dealing with anything legal. Everyone accepts the spanish driving licence as proof of ID.
Also , now they no longer require a national to carry ID they cannot ask the legally resident foreigner to do so either.
Just as an aside . On the one occasion I did have to have my passport notarised , for a UK bank, for the princely sum of
3,60€, as soon as I requested a receipt I was required to provide Photo ID.But you aren't allowed to use anything that is being 'notarised' ...........I,e, the passport You can't make the stuff up here, so the driving licence was perfectly acceptable.
Must be dodgy where you live as I don't know anyone here who doesn't carry the originals in the vehicle.
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Thanks everyone, ....I believe we must also carry our own breathalyzer ?
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Per @The Nomad is right.Thanks everyone, ....I believe we must also carry our own breathalyzer ?
On my recent trek through Spain, a friend had brought 500 euro notes with him. There was not a single shop that would accept one and not all the banks would even consider changing them for him. 50s are the biggest note you want to carry IMHO
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