Comments from/to non-Portuguese users [See First Post]

[Castanhola]

I'm being lazy, so yeah sue me: Notes from Alfragide are entered as from Amadora? Right? or .... Asking for a friend.
Depois explico.

Olá. Sim Alfragide é uma parte da cidade da Amadora. Portanto a localidade deve ser Amadora.

[lmviterbo]

(English below, for lazy foreigners )

Sim, Alfragide é atualmente (há 46 anos, de facto) uma freguesia dentro da cidade da Amadora. O artigo da Wikipédia portuguesa sobre Alfragide está errado, ao dizer que é uma localidade.

Nota: há alguns espaços comerciais que se autointitulam «de Alfragide» mas não são em Alfragide, nem na Amadora. Se o sítio que te interessa não é a IKEA ou o Recheio (esses sim, na Amadora), mas está do outro lado dos «Cabos de Ávila» (a N117), na chamada «Zona Comercial de Alfragide» , então provavelmente é um dos seguintes. Diz qual é, que eu te direi qual é a localidade correta:

• Alegro Alfragide (incluindo o Auchan Alfragide)
• Antarte Alfragide
• Auchan Energy Alfragide
• Caetano Auto Alfragide
• Cash Converters Alfragide
• C. Santos VP Alfragide
• Espaço Casa Alfragide
• Galp A.S. Alfragide N117 sentido descendente
• Holiday Inn Express Lisboa Alfragide
• Hôma Alfragide
• Leroy Merlin Alfragide
• Makro Alfragide
• MediaMarkt Alfragide
• Norauto Alfragide
• Obramat Alfragide
• Radio Popular Alfragide
• Repsol E.S. Makro-Alfragide
• Seaside Alfragide
• Staples Alfragide

English here:

Yes, Alfragide is now (and it has been for 46 years, in fact) a parish within the city of Amadora. The Portuguese Wikipedia article on Alfragide is wrong, saying that it is a locality.

Note: there are some shops that call themselves "Alfragide" but they are not in Alfragide or Amadora. If the place you're interested in isn't IKEA (which is in Amadora), but is on the other side of the "Cabos de Ávila" (the N117), in the so-called "Zona Comercial de Alfragide" , then it's probably in the list above. Tell me which one it is and I'll tell you the correct location.

[Dawizz]

I'm being lazy, so yeah sue me: Notes from Alfragide are entered as from Amadora? Right? or .... Asking for a friend.
Depois explico.

Olá. Sim Alfragide é uma parte da cidade da Amadora. Portanto a localidade deve ser Amadora.

(English below, for lazy foreigners )

Sim, Alfragide é atualmente (há 46 anos, de facto) uma freguesia dentro da cidade da Amadora. O artigo da Wikipédia portuguesa sobre Alfragide está errado, ao dizer que é uma localidade.

Obrigado Castanhola & lmviterbo : Eu convidei amigos para almoçar lá em casa, e bem depois de um bom almoço dois copinhos de vinho e todos estrangeiros, a falarem de tudo e de nada em Francês, Alemão e Inglês. A cabeça não dava para mais e eu cometi um erro e postei aqui e em Inglês
Eu juro que não foi o vinho que me fez fazer este disparate

[AECH]

Congratulations AEOVP and Josel on your first quadruple hit!

I am curious do you work at the same place, often track in the exact same area of Lisboa or is there some friendly hit action going on? (you know you can always moderate if some accidents happen)

[Josel]

I assure I donot know who AEOVP is!
Best regards,
Josel

[AECH]

Oh wow that's interesting, I really thought you must at least know each other.

Sorry if I sounded too accusatory and congratulations again on this even more amazing hit then

Hope I will also find a note of you at some point

[lmviterbo]

I believe that AEOVP found, by chance, a hotspot, where Josel leaves his small notes often (for example, a supermarket).

I am pretty sure that AEOVP registers all their notes in the same postal code regardless of where they got the notes, and I believe it to be the postal code of their home or work, but not the place where they get most hits, the so-called hotspot.

Congratulations to all involved!

[groentje]

Obrigado, Inviterbo, for entering this note I found back in a village butcher in Vichte. It was my first hit, this month, and immediately a very nice one (I got a second hit today, more local, shortly after).

[lmviterbo]

Obrigado, Inviterbo, for entering this note I found back in a village butcher in Vichte. It was my first hit, this month, and immediately a very nice one (I got a second hit today, more local, shortly after).

Dankjewel, groentje! Our first hit.

I had a longish period without hits too, than I had two active ones on the same batch of withdrawn notes yesterday, and this one less than a day later.

It's my 6th hit ever with West-Vlaanderen, each of them with a new EBTor. It's a fruitful region.

[laurentina]

Obrigado Castanhola for finding this note
My first hit with Northern Ireland

[Castanhola]

Obrigado Castanhola for finding this note
My first hit with Northern Ireland

Thank you also for entering this note first. I'm very happy with this hit, as it's the eighth hit involving Northern Ireland, and one of the most interesting of those eight hits.

[Tárrega]

Olá pessoal Portuguese EBT:ers

I'm heading to Portugal for the first time since becoming an ebtor, more specifically Lisboa, and I can't wait at all! I would like to ask whether there's some great ways of getting notes, exchange machines e.g., and whether there's some ATM:s providing Do ATM:s charge a fee for the withdrawal or are there free ones?

Thank you very much in advance, looking forward to hopefully getting some Portuguese hits! And of course for you some Danish hits.. Greetings!

[Montgomery Burns]

exchange machines e.g., and whether there's some ATM:s providing Do ATM:s charge a fee for the withdrawal or are there free ones?

• Exchange machines

They are few and far between around here... or simply non-existent - I don't recall any discussion about such a machine anywhere in Portugal (I'm assuming you're talking about this sort of thing).

• ATM's

These we do have! Unfortunately it's a dying breed, they were more common in the past. Known bank branches and other locations listed here:

viewtopic.php?t=55410

Scroll down to the list, and then to Lisboa district - the sources in Lisbon proper have a postal codes starting with 1. The postal codes starting with 2 indicate they are towns in other areas (mostly suburban Lisbon) in the Lisbon district, which is actually quite larger than just Lisbon municipality.

• Fees

There are no service fees in the Multibanco ATM network - if you're withdrawing from a non-euro account you might be charged an exchange fee, I'm not entirely sure. I would stay away from non-Multibanco machines (the infamous Euronet Worldwide et al).

• Further reading:

viewtopic.php?p=1153524#p1153524

viewtopic.php?p=1153576#p1153576

[Tárrega]

Obrigado Montgomery Burns for the detailed information!

Yeah, I was thinking exactly about that kind of machine.. Well, that would be just too easy wouldn't it? Do you know where in Europe they still exist?

But wonderful that you have ATMs with ! Can't wait to try them out. I'm from Denmark, so I do have a non-euro account, but it wasn't like I was taken by surprise of some skyhigh fees when I went to Spain this summer. So I'm confident! And the Euronet ATMs.. they should be banned haha

Christmas greetings from Denmark

[Castanhola]

Please note that if you want to withdraw only notes from an Multibanco that dispenses and notes, you can only withdraw 10€ at a time to receive two notes. If you withdraw 50€, for example, you will receive four notes and two notes. If the ATM only has and notes, you can only withdraw 20€ to ensure you receive four notes. There are machines that allow you to choose the type of notes, but they are not part of the Multibanco network and you would have to be a customer of that bank.