When I did holiday abroad I always used my M&S card to buy currency ,if I wanted to use cash I had to provide identity, ,driving license or passport.
My friend had a problem last week as only cash is acceptable at this time but in our local store the cash machine is adjacent to the currency dept so she just got cash out.
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