"Richard J." wrote in message
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Mizter T wrote on 06 January 2014 21:01:28 ...

On 06/01/2014 17:16, David Cantrell wrote:

On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 08:46:47PM +0000, Clive Page wrote:

It could be that some of them are conditioned by the near impossibility
of using ticket machines at stations in France (and for that matter in
the Netherlands) if you are a non-native.

The only problem I've had with ticket machines in Paris is that they use
funny foreign coins that I don't recognise very quickly, which makes it
hard to figure out what to put in. If only Europe would adopt a single
currency, such as the pound.

Well, at least the funny foreign coins show the value as a number. I feel
sorry for foreigners trying to decipher "TWENTY PENCE" in letters 1.5mm
high on the edge of our 20p coin.

when we still have the old 10p pieces, I can recall an American putting one
on the counter and asking the assistant is this (huge) coin worth one, or
two of your pounds?

tim