Polish Zloty Can't Exchange in France!..

Hi to everybody,

I just want to share my bad experience in France. Because it is totaly silly and meaningless situation. Any bank or post office doesn't exchange Polish Zloty to Euro or another moneys in Paris and Strasbourg. So be carefull if you will go to the France, before the France you must be sure you have enough Euro :)

Thanks, but why would anyone go to France?

;)

France is visited more than any other country, suprising as it may seem.

I love France. There is so much the whole world inherited form their culture: democracy (ya, ya, Greeks started it), wine (ya, ya, other countries make better ones), art (no competition), cheese, truffles, lavender fields, Paris, Normandy and my favourite: Provance. Hmmmmm.......

eatining is art

Versaille, South of France, Champagne, etc.

what I don't like about France-> most of the food. I like the cheese and wine but I'm not a big fan of fish, snails, frogs, boeuf, duck, and all the other different types of meats that the French eat at every meal. I hate red meat, so dinners in France are gross to me :(

I'm sure it is. Like M says...art, wine, cheese filet minon ;) What more can you ask for? Not sure about their beer though.

It's possible that not enough PL bring zloty into the country. When I travelled with my gf's family, they always exchange currency before leaving the country. I'd imagine this would also be done at the Airport.

It's not only France. We have a large PL population in NJ, but I can't exchange in a Bank of America or Commerce. If I go to a PL neighborhood, maybe one of their banks would. It's not common here anyway.

I don't know why you must go to the France actually. That was just my experince and I really surprised. But maybe some people can go there for spent nice times at Paris or another romantic cities :)

Most places in the UK will exchange, I'm really surprised that you can't do it in America..

And never never never never exchange at an airport...its the worst rate you can get! Unless you are changing £ to euro and everywhere is shite at the moment :( only a week and a half to go before Im in sunny Spain....please let the euro increase....

funnily enough, i had real problems exchanging sterling in america last year. and my british passport wasnt considered a valid form of id

nice! please mybe you can til us what you have in poland ? mybe the same like france i think .
what is famouse in pologne!
what pologne can give for a EU!
thanks you

For the food, the culture, the history, the scenery, just to name a few. Paris is a beautiful city to visit for a week or so, then it's off to Brittany and Normandy, Alsace, and especially Provence. Villefranch-sur mer is a gem, and there are many more.

Yes France is the most visited in Europe bue the way every one goes on about it ( including the French obviously) you'd think it's the only country in Europe! There are so many other beautiful countries/cities in Europe

For good reasons.
France has everything.
They are so lucky that most French people rarely holiday abroad.
They just don't need to.
They have everything anyone could want in their own country.....plus great food, wine etc......

Along with growing discontent about the way things are and an alienation of the ruling elite. Passing more and more draconian laws and attempts at quashing citizens protests.

True.France has many problems.
But many advantages too......I can't understand why so many refugees in France want to come to the UK.
It must be because we are an easier touch than France.

The ruling elite is alienated everywhere and not only in France.

In fact, it is because France is (with Poland) the country of bureaucracy.. There is a indeed a very generous benefits system but to be able to use it one must speak and understand French (no forms in Urdu etc available!) and fill in numerous forms and answer many questions (even when done on line).. A deterrent for many foreigners..

You are dead right, here in The UK everything is translated and if not translators are brought in!

But even then, we get quite a lot of French speaking Africans anyway!

The only thing I noticed in Polish is slave labour posters... And as we all know the number of Poles is quite high.

Another thread about immigration in Western Europe ? Just what the doctor ordered

I have never seen any of those, but you are right,there is not that much translated to Polish here.
But that may be because many Polish men can speak good English and if they don't then their wives or girlfriends usually do :-)

Let's put it this way- I saw things in English with the option of Welsh. That's it.

It depends when you were here.There used to be a lot of stuff translated but in 2015 the government decided this was wasting money and was divisive.

gov.uk/government/speeches/translation-into-foreign-languages

But it still happens in areas with a high immigrant population.

@Miloslaw
I lived in London between 1993 and 2001 and remember seeing forms in all sorts of languages at my local Social Security outlet when I went to get a NI number

Their economy is on thin ice.

France is in a world of hurt.
Quoting:
It looks all but certain that France's government will collapse this week, giving it the unwanted distinction of being the shortest-lived government in modern French history.
The ramifications, however, go beyond France.
The collapse is expected to happen on Wednesday or Thursday, whenever parliament holds a no-confidence vote on Prime Minister Michel Barnier. By all accounts, he has virtually no prayer of surviving.
How will this effect Poland and the rest of the E.U.