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Yup, same in the Netherlands and Romania. The adoption of contactless payments in Romania has been astonishing. When I first moved here four years ago you coul

Yup, same in the Netherlands and Romania. The adoption of contactless payments in Romania has been astonishing. When I first moved here four years ago you could only pay by card at restaurants and supermarkets and definitely not contactless. Now, four years later, you can pay contactless everywhere. Including all the little stores. Any place that supports card payments also supports contactless payments. Hell, you can hop in any bus now and buy a ticket on the spot with the contactless payment terminals in the bus. No human interaction required, you just hold up your card or phone and it prints a ticket. Ever since Apple Pay became available, I can't remember the last time I pulled out my card. There are only two things I still use cash for. Tipping and taxis. The latter can be worked around by using Uber or one of the local competitors.

simonh 7y ago
In London you generally don't even get a bus, rail or underground ticket. You just swipe the contactless pads to hop on, or in and out at stations. Very occasionally an inspector just holds a hand terminal to your card to check you paid.
- johnnycab 7y ago
  >Very occasionally an inspector just holds a hand terminal to your card to check you paid. For a ticket inspector, there is hardly any information to discern if a journey has been made when using a Contactless card. Furthermore, anybody who uses this method knows that it can be several days before a journey shows up on the list of transactions. Although, it is largely to do with how the TfL payment system was implemented, with Contactless being more of a hindsight. However, it is significantly better than nothing at all.