Fish and Chips - 8/10

More work. I got my credit card issue settled last night… hopefully. Nothing’s certain until the card is actually in my hand, but I’m more hopeful this time than at any other time the last few days. I see that I haven’t mentioned the credit card problem before. Huh. That was a fairly big deal, so it’s kind of surprising. I brought two credit cards to York with me. My Discover card, which I’d planned to use as my main card, and a Visa, which has a lower balance and wsa thus going to be my backup card. Unfortunately, Discover is pretty much not accepted anywhere in the UK. You can’t even get cash out of the machine with it. I had a nice long talk with the holders of my Visa card, but they’re basically useless. I’ll be canceling that card as soon as I get back to the States. They would not give me an emergency credit increase. The only reason I brought these cards was because I hadn’t received my corporate card yet, but a quick call to the
American Express office and that should be taken care of on Friday. We’ll see.

Anyway, that should be solved now and as soon as I get the card I’ll feel a lot better. I’ll be able to enjoy my weekend. I’ve got some plans, and I’m armed with a camera.

We went into the city center for lunch today rather than the little next door bakery. We kind of had a hard time finding something, but we eventually settled for a little pub and had some pretty basic food. One of the guys I’m with has been talking about fish and chips the whole time. Too bad it wasn’t as good as he’d hoped. We went into town so that he could buy a bag for his trip to London this weekend. We stopped at an English department store called Marks and Spencer. It’s very strange to see a department store on par with Sears or JC Penney that has the entire first floor dedicated to groceries. Very odd. Dinner was at a Turkish restaurant. I had
a Turkish beer. It was light, but I let it get warm and it started tasting bitter.