To the right, the beer counter that was filled with all local and some foreign beers.

But then you had the local shops around the corner. They didn't mind.

The cop car cruised around to keep tab on everything. Comforting to know. The tourist area where heavily guarded. Tourist industry is the only form of employment in this area and they cannot risk anything happening to their golden goose, the tourists that lay their golden eggs.

1. The price is in US $ not local currency.
2. They then convert the dollars into your local currency at a rate detrimental to you.
3. And to add insult to injury, they then add an administrative fee on top of this paying with credit cards.

Only stupid tourists would go for this. Particularly gullible Norwegian tourists. They always get screwed by everyone, on an individual basis and on a national level. Square-heads American call Norwegians, and rightly so.

So what do you do?

1. Most cards have a handling fees while drawing cash.
2. Draw on your card the currency that you are to pay in. So then the greedy Apollo or any travel agency
   1. Get their dollars
   2. Cannot give you a lousy exchange rate
   3. Cannot add an extra administrative fee for handling your card, be it debit or credit card.

Back to the beginning of the presentation.

 Last updated on February 18, 2007 at 17:31 hours.