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I think its just another way of making money for the Bank. Look at "Le virement instantané" . For quite sometime Revolut and BoursoBank (for example) have had these available for free (Revolut do country to country free). Its only recently that a change in European rules have forced banks to offer this service without the charges they were levying on clients. Some were charging up to 10€ for the service, whist others, at the same time, offered it free. Its always about the money.

Well I suppose technically CA can charge what they like for the use of their ATM's but I agree it sounds outrageous. One to avoid I think. I don't know whether or not this would help but I recently set up a Wise account. I've set it up with two 'pots' one in euros and one in sterling. I can transfer funds online and then decide which pot I want it to go into. I then use the debit card to pay for goods or withdraw cash. I think I used a CA ATM to activate the card and I certainly wasn't charged 6 euros for the privilege.

I've just mamaged to change the hour forward, twice now in 2 days .. as I'm back in France. Arrived at the hotel last night and said, what time is it please? Tunnel was late, which didn't help! Maybe by the time I'm home - 2 more days - I'll have sorted myself out!!

We have two right hand drive French registered cars, as you say nothing on the CG.

I’m definitely getting grumpier, the older I get !!! We bank in the UK with a high street bank and with Credit Agricole here in France. We buy our Euro needs monthly through a broker and that works fine. Every now and then though, you have an expensive month and need a cash top-up. Some time back, CA introduced a €6 charge for withdrawals from a ‘foreign’ bank. I normally refuse to incur this extra charge and deal with it in some other way since some banks don’t make this charge. What I’d really like to know, perhaps from somebody who works or previously worked in banking, is whether this is a legitimate charge. What I mean is that I have always thought that a transaction is a transaction and the worldwide banking system doesn’t really recognise country borders, particularly within Europe. The charge goes against the debiting account wherever it is - it’s not as though there’s somebody sitting there allocating the debit. I just think that it’s a ‘fast-one’ to boost profits for no additional work. Am I wrong?