I'd recommend telling your bank and your credit card issuers that you are planning on traveling to The Netherlands at least a week or two in advance. My ATM card and two of my credit cards had a policy last year of declining all charges from that country due to large amounts of ATM/credit card fraud several years ago. Of course, I only found that out after the conference closed and I had absolutely no way of purchasing a train ticket back to Amsterdam.... I ended having to walk for a mile or two to find a post office to change US Dollars to Euros, since the only credit card that I had that worked in The Netherlands was my American Express card, and (a) I didn't know its pin number, and (b) it was accepted at the train station. (And when I called my bank to get my ATM card authorized for The Netherlands, they told me it would take 24-36 hours, and I wasn't going to be in the country that long. Very Frustrating.) My fault for not having a secondary backup of traveling with a hundred dollars of Euro bills, of course, which is now my standard policy. I had gotten spoiled with having my ATM card work everywhere...... -- Ted _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf