Trouble in a trip
You can’t travel for a month without money, and you certainly can’t withdraw cash from ATMs if something goes wrong. I kept wondering how anyone could get through a situation like that. My daughter left for Europe alone at the beginning of this month. I’d been worried from the start because she doesn’t speak any English. Trouble happened immediately on the first day. She tried to withdraw money from an ATM at Heathrow Airport and failed. Then she flew to Malta and tried again, but the ATM there didn’t work either. For six days she wasn’t able to withdraw any money at all. Yesterday afternoon she called me on Skype, crying. Her debit card had become invalid because she entered the wrong PIN several times. She called the bank that issued the card, but their response was cold: “The only solution is to reissue the card.” I called the bank myself. My call was transferred three times, and in the end they simply gave me the phone number of a specific department and told...