Do you go out for dinner in the States and when they bring your check you hand the waitress your credit card? That doesn't scare you? In Spain your credit card never leaves your sight or hand.
I’ll bang on on this until I get bored. Then I’ll stop.
You use the internet; you have a mobile phone; you use banks and credit cards; you use tap&go; you use Farcebook, Berking.con, Instagrab, you pay local property taxes, are a library card...
@melooon, welcome to the forum.
Canadian citizens do not need a visa for travel to countries within the Schengen area, unless you intend to stay more than 90 days.
Therefore you do not need a visa - unless of course you intend to travel more...
We made Fabada on Saturday, put the rest in the fridge and will finish in the middle of the week ( it's like chili, get better after it sits).
Locally, we have several Latino markets that carry chorizo, mocella, pork belly and hocks are easily...
that is not what is required. It's the "method" of payment ie: cash; credit card; bank card; bank transfer.
One simple avoidance is to pay cash. Or just take comfort that "they": the Bankers, and Elon, Steve, Sundar, Larry and all the rest...
It cannot be described in words, actually: You have to see the magnitude to realise it. Those advising to skip the Meseta cannot possibly "get" it. JMHO. I am right with you.
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