Yorkieabroad

Thats folk the world over. When we were in Singapore I worked with a Danish guy who was proud of the fact that in 3 years he had only eaten the "foreign stuff" once. He existed purely on McDonalds, KFC, Chils, Hard Rock Cafe etc.....you know, all those world renowned Danish eateries

Jan Alaska

Just to confuse matters further when we visited the motherland last year we started in Scotland, short on cash hubby used an ATM and was surprised to see RBS bank notes. I explained that some Scottish banks issue their own notes but they were all worth the same, 2 days later in York a nice lady in a pie shop refused to take one of the notes which caused some major confusion.

Pulaski

That would be because Scottish bank notes are not legal tender, not even in Scotland, though they are customarily accepted there.

penguinbar

My husband is from Scotland as well. I have noticed that if I start off in Scotland and then go down to England to visit friends quite a few of the shops won't take Scottish notes. I had an issue with a taxi driver who wouldn't take it in London and that was all I had on me. I had to go into a shop and by something and get change.

kimilseung

When buying food in England with Scottish notes, always take a bite first.

materialcontroller

My American girlfriend couldn't get her head around the concept of different currencies and exchange rates. When she visited me in the UK she withdrew £200 from her Chase account using an ATM and then, when I whisked her away to Paris for a short romantic interlude, withdrew another €200 from an ATM near Gare du Nord.

Two days later she gets an alert from Chase telling her that she was overdrawn and some money transfers hadn't been paid. She'd been thinking all along that she'd actually withdrawn the equivalent of $200 at a time, not #200 in local currency! She naively and wrongly assumed the dollar was worth more than European funny money.

materialcontroller

They are legal currency however.

Scotland and Northern Ireland issue £100 notes. I wonder how one of those would be received in England or Wales.

Jerseygirl

Not according to the Bank of England....

http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/bankn...t/faqs.aspx#16

materialcontroller

I never said the banknotes were "legal tender", I said they were "legal currency".

Pulaski

No need to wonder ..... we all know how they'd be received!

Sally Redux

Scots spend 100 pounds

Pulaski

You are entirely correct. The two terms mean different things, though the situation is bound to cause confusion.

GeoffM

It's hard enough to get a £50 note accepted in many places in the UK, let alone a Scottish or NI one.

Pulaski

Paper money is soooo 20th century!

Jan Alaska

Funny how the Scots can be, lived there for over 10 years and never had a problem spending English notes. To make matters worse Clydesdale bank and Bank of Scotland also issue their own.

Never really had a problem spending them in England only the taxis and smaller shops seem to have a problem with them.

Anyhoo thank goodness for the Euro, we are off to Yorkshire for a week followed by a week in Rome DH is now familiar with both currencies