Last time I was in England - I didn't know the coins. Standing there with my hand full of shrapnel while a foreign-born gentleman picked through my collection looking for three pounds fifty. 'No, that's a five pee', he said when I tried to join in...
'You're not English?', he asked...

Been there, got the t-shirt.
I try to pass it off as old age and dodgy eyesight

I own a flat in Manor Park, east London. Not that it bothers me much, but it's a totally Asian area. I bought it 30 years ago, when it was 'different'.

I can't regard it as home, I would be the only white man for miles around if I returned.

I'm not making a racial point, that would be silly, but I'm stating the bare truth.

I suppose I'll stay in Torrevieja, If I can ask people to cover their ears - it's a shithole, but it's less of a shithole than Manor Park.

Why would you stay there then ?

Commercial reasons.

I've been like that on my two visits to England in two months, hadn't a clue what the coins were.....and why is it they don't seem to use fifty pound notes?
It's so inconvenient when you change euros and they give you nothing but twenties!

£50's are available, but when I have asked in the bank for them they havent got any.
Believe they are the common currency for drug dealers as are the higher denomination €'s

Fair enough.