This is a follow-up to yesterday’s “Eurotic” blog post. In it, I had quoted from a rather shocking Reuters story that said that American tourists were being turned away from currency exchange shops not wanting to purchase U.S. dollars. My good buddy Remco from The Hague, Netherlands put one of his young colleagues at a Dutch newspaper on the trail of this story and found that it was, to quote him directly, “bullshit.” Apparently his colleague had no problem finding an abundance of exchange shops willing to buy dollars. She even spoke with Americans on vacation there (though I can’t imagine anyone but Hiltons and Gateses–and sil ol’ me–setting foot on Euro Union soil at the moment). They said they were fine and had no problems exchanging bucks for Euros. Apparently this is another case of overblown, inappropriately amped up coverage meant to get our knickers in a twist.

Posted by Shana Ting Lipton