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Where do you keep your money?
Where do you keep your cash and credit cards on the road? What the things that work best on a long trip? Please send me your ideas and experiences.
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One idea I've seen suggested is to keep cards and valuables hidden in a travel pouch under your belt or shirt, and have a "throw away" wallet with just a day's worth of cash and a few outdated cards (library, etc).

If you get robbed or pickpocketed you just lose the throw away wallet and hopefully keep the more valuable items.
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try air box, and under the stitching of your seat, A note or two under the soles of shoes.
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Fern, Airbox? Excuse my ignorance, do you mean tupperware?
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The air filter, I have a panel that comes off quickly, the air filter is in here, and you can reach your hand round the back of the airfilter/sponge. Here I can stash a few little things.
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We travel by car rather than bike. However, the trick is to leave money / spare cards salted away all over the vehicle and in a couple of different places around your clothing (under the seat lining / behind fuse box on a bike, behind ashtray / behind headliner / under carpet on a car).
The best advice I've heard though is always to have a 'distraction' stash that, if you're forced to hand something over quickly, has a few notes and maybe even an old credit card in it. Some people have even used the 'A N Other' blanks your get in your junk meail. The objective is to hand it over and get out of any compromising situation as soon as possbible.
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We travel by car rather than bike. However, the trick is to leave money / spare cards salted away all over the vehicle and in a couple of different places around your clothing (under the seat lining / behind fuse box on a bike, behind ashtray / behind headliner / under carpet on a car).
The best advice I've heard though is always to have a 'distraction' stash that, if you're forced to hand something over quickly, has a few notes and maybe even an old credit card in it. Some people have even used the 'A N Other' blanks your get in your junk meail. The objective is to hand it over and get out of any compromising situation as soon as possbible.
Tried that distraction stash trick in Vietnam when I got mugged. Had to resort to good old fashioned violence to get out of that one. Looking back on it, the best advice I could give is don't be drunk as a skunk in the wrong part of town late at night, which is where I went wrong....
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Shoes are not good money gets wet there and credit cards dont want to be bent i have them on my leg when its angerous and some throw away cards and little bit of money in my jacket....

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Shoes are not good money gets wet there and credit cards dont want to be bent i have them on my leg when its angerous and some throw away cards and little bit of money in my jacket....

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i agree, shoes are not suitable, unless you can make some modifications
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My shoes got stolen in Argentina while I napped in the shade just a few feet away. Only theft on a year-long trip. Twenty years before, my shoes got stolen in a train station in Tanzania. That was the only theft on that year-long trip.

Everyone works out their own methods. I've never lost anything from a moneybelt, so I carry cash in one. When I'm feeling extra vulnerable, I carry two strapped on in different places. I've always got some cash in a pocket for casual use, but I never carry a wallet--too easy to pickpocket. I'm always meaning to tuck some money somewhere else, but I never get around to it. Life is supposed to be simple, not complicated.

Hope that's helpful. Hang onto your shoes!

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If you have a Revolut card you can use it wherever MasterCard is accepted and you can lock the card down remotely from your phone.
And the card tells you when it has been used...

Good exchange rates, but limited cash withdrawals.


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[QUOTE=chasbmw;593554]If you have a Revolut card you can use it wherever MasterCard is accepted and you can lock the card down remotely from your phone.
And the card tells you when it has been used...

Good exchange rates, but limited cash withdrawals.


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Hi there Chas,
I have a new Starling Bank MasterCard card which I understand carries no fees for cash withdrawals abroad at all. I have yet to use it but will be using it in anger from Feb onwards on my Beijing ride.
I am considering the Revolut Visa card my only issue is the max £200 month free cash withdrawal , as I would like to operate on a cash paying basis only to minimise card fraud whilst shopping for anything really as advised by Chris Scott in the AMH.
Have you found anything else with no or minimal cash withdrawal fee that I may consider?
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I think that FairFX operate on the basis of a minimal charge £1.50 I think for cash withdrawals.

Remember that with a Revolut card you use your App to lock down the card when you are not using it. So you can disable swipe payments, contactless,ATM withdrawals and online transactions. It also uses a location based security system. Also you get a message on your phone when the card is used.

So I use both FairFX and revolut.


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PS. As the revolut is a cash card, you just top it up as you go along so the amount of cash you are “carrying”in the card is limited.

So much easier know than carrying 6 months of money in travellers cheques stuffed up the main frame tube of my BMW.
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