No chip-and-PIN hassles

The May edition of ITN had five pages of letters from subscribers’ telling the difficulties they had using magnetic-stripe debit and credit cards from the United States in Europe.

My husband and I have been traveling the world for 40 years, and we were leaving on May 1 for London, Paris and Brugge. These reports caused us a great deal of anxiety and we almost canceled our trip.

Never in our two weeks abroad — in hotels, small places of business, metro stations, smaller towns, restaurants, bars, theaters, etc. — did we run into any difficulty using either credit cards or ATM cards.

PHYLLIS AXEL

Chicago, IL