Comments on: Tourism in Scandinavia on World Tourism Day/2024/09/27/tourism-in-scandinavia-on-world-tourism-day/The goal of this blog is to create a long list of facts that are important, not trivia, and that are known to be true yet are either disputed by large segments of the public or highly surprising or misunderstood by many.Sun, 02 Feb 2025 06:21:54 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Big Events In 2024 – Leonberger Life/2024/09/27/tourism-in-scandinavia-on-world-tourism-day/comment-page-1/#comment-2050Sun, 05 Jan 2025 21:55:13 +0000/?p=510#comment-2050[…] Left to right, me, my oldest son  and his wife. Click on the image to visit my post titled : “Tourism in Scandinavia on World Tourism Day”. Imagining how a Huldra would look like. Stock AI-generated image ID: 2400845203 by Shutterstock […]

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]]>By: dgkaye/2024/09/27/tourism-in-scandinavia-on-world-tourism-day/comment-page-1/#comment-547Tue, 01 Oct 2024 13:35:09 +0000/?p=510#comment-547In reply to thomasstigwikman.

I’m with you on the cash thing! 🙂

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]]>By: thomasstigwikman/2024/09/27/tourism-in-scandinavia-on-world-tourism-day/comment-page-1/#comment-546Tue, 01 Oct 2024 01:19:11 +0000/?p=510#comment-546In reply to dgkaye.

Thank you so much Debby. I encountered the cashless thing the first time two years ago when I noticed that every store had a sign saying “no cash”, and you no longer could change currency at banks. They told me that cash spread viruses, like the cornona virus, which I understand, but going cashless seemed liked an extreme response. I think some things are better in Scandinavia and some things are worse, but I think the cashless thing is a mistake.

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]]>By: dgkaye/2024/09/27/tourism-in-scandinavia-on-world-tourism-day/comment-page-1/#comment-545Tue, 01 Oct 2024 00:40:04 +0000/?p=510#comment-545Thanks for sharing some of your Nordic vacation with us Thomas. I was surprised to hear that they are trying to keep the country cashless. I just can’t wrap my head around that. I hope you’re rested and rejuventated. 🙂

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]]>By: thomasstigwikman/2024/09/27/tourism-in-scandinavia-on-world-tourism-day/comment-page-1/#comment-544Mon, 30 Sep 2024 03:06:28 +0000/?p=510#comment-544In reply to da-AL.

Yes you are right. Thank you so much da-AL.

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]]>By: da-AL/2024/09/27/tourism-in-scandinavia-on-world-tourism-day/comment-page-1/#comment-543Mon, 30 Sep 2024 01:09:50 +0000/?p=510#comment-543what a great day to celebrate!

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]]>By: thomasstigwikman/2024/09/27/tourism-in-scandinavia-on-world-tourism-day/comment-page-1/#comment-541Sun, 29 Sep 2024 16:02:26 +0000/?p=510#comment-541In reply to Smorgasbord – Variety is the Spice of Life..

Yes you are right. Glitches are not common but they do happen. Then when you travel your spending changes so getting fraud alerts stopping your card from working is quite common. Luckily it did not happen on this trip but it happened on the last one.

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]]>By: Smorgasbord - Variety is the Spice of Life./2024/09/27/tourism-in-scandinavia-on-world-tourism-day/comment-page-1/#comment-540Sun, 29 Sep 2024 15:58:27 +0000/?p=510#comment-540In reply to thomasstigwikman.

Absolutely, and it only takes your bank to have a glitch which seems to happen quite often and you cannot access any funds. xx

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]]>By: thomasstigwikman/2024/09/27/tourism-in-scandinavia-on-world-tourism-day/comment-page-1/#comment-539Sun, 29 Sep 2024 15:55:29 +0000/?p=510#comment-539In reply to Smorgasbord – Variety is the Spice of Life..

Thank you so much Sally. We do the same. We lower our carbon footprint in various ways but Texas is not ready for EVs in my opinion, and they certainly are not trying too, so we have a hybrid. In Sweden and Norway there seemed to be enough charging stations but not here. If I am inconvenienced from the cash-less-ness as a visitor to Scandinavia then I think that means it is not a good idea. Losing options is not something good. A few years ago when our daughter was traveling alone in Greece both her credit cards were stopped. She had cash, so she was fine, but imagine that being Sweden.

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]]>By: Smorgasbord - Variety is the Spice of Life./2024/09/27/tourism-in-scandinavia-on-world-tourism-day/comment-page-1/#comment-538Sun, 29 Sep 2024 11:53:12 +0000/?p=510#comment-538Looks like you had an amazing visit Thomas and thank you for the guided tour. I agree with you about a comletely cashless society and I notice even in my main shopping supermarket when the weather is bad, reception is iffy and many cannot access their phones for shopping vouchers or to pay. I am old school I am afraid and still prefer to use cash or card but want the choice. As to vehicles.. I will be holding off on the EV’s until such time as there are sufficient charges here to support the need and will probably get a hybrid before a full EV. I hope that I minimise my carbon footprint in other ways. Very interesting post.

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