Angelina

brilliant idea Ernie ---certainly going to try that--i have an obliging credit worthy eldest son . Thankyou!!!

Thanks for the welcome Clair of course we have a french bank account too --but we keep the minimum in it guess we'll have to change our ways ! Thanks you and everybody who answered for taking the trouble .

 'cos we keep the majority of our funds in our UK bank account and are reluctant to bring too much over with the current exchange rate . But we may have to get a french one.Thankyou Panda 

Hi potential advisers! when we moved to France 6 years ago we ( in retrospect foolishly) got rid of our credit cards .no more loans or living on credit ! Now we have started travels again we realise we need credit cards to book hotels and most importantly to rent cars with . All credit cards sites so far say you must have a UK address .Does anyone know if this is some sort of law ?it seems mad that we've had a current account for 18 years with Nationwide and they make the same stipulation --even tho' they send our bank statements to us here in France .Has anyone got any ideas how we could get a credit card ??                                                                Angelina