Can I purchase them there, or do I have to go to a post office? How much for a card to the States? Merci.

Yes, Bill, you can purchase them at a Tabac or your hotel will most likely have stamps and mail them for you, as well. A postcard stamp cost .69 euros. ( I can't get the Euro symbol on my keyboard to work. Does anyone know how?)

A postcard (or letter weighing 10 grams or under) costs .67 euro (4,40 FF) - if you purchase the stamp in the Post Office. If you purchase the stamps in tabacs or hotels, they charge you a bit more (rather like a commission). So if you plan to send a lot of postcards, I'd head for the post office.<BR><BR>PB<BR><BR>

Euro symbol - what about AltGr + 5 ?<BR>Works fine for me:<BR><BR>???????????????<BR><BR>Bjorn

Bjorn-didn't work for me (

<BR><BR>With most Microsoft applications it is "Alt 0128"<BR><BR>Rich

<BR><BR>Trying to see if it works here : ?<BR><BR>yep . . it did.<BR><BR>Rich

<BR><BR>Ah ha . . it did when I composed, but when I posted it became a ?<BR><BR>Works for other applications but not here I guess . . <BR><BR>Rich

? ? ? ?

Bjorn: What is altGR? Maybe it's not on the American keyboard. Thanks for the help, though.<BR><BR>Rich; I just tested alt 0128 and got the euro symbol but it posted as a question mark. Odd. I'll bet Rex will know. Maybe he'll read this and help us out. But thanks because anyway, it seems to work on letters and printing out.<BR><BR>Thank you both.

Alt Gr is the key immediately to the right of the spacing bar (Alt is on the left)<BR>Bjorn

Even if you do have alot of post cards, it's simpler to pay a little extra and buy them at a tabachi. In Italy, post offices are used more often for paying bills & you can find yourself standing in slow moving lines. Plus, you think you've seen attitude in a US post office ??? Wait 'til you meet up with Italian version.

First, it's true that in France there are often real long lines in the post office, also, for various reasons so tabacs are more convenient usually.<BR><BR>Second, I'd like to make the euro sign also. I don't know what ALT GR is but there is an ALT key on both sides of my space bar, I think Sjord has a European keyboard which varies (I know French keyboards vary). However, ALT+0128 does work, thank you very much! You can find out these keystrokes in Windows by going to Programs, Accessories, then "Character Map". A complete chart shows and when you point to or click on the one you want, the keystroke shows in the bottom righthand. I never noticed the ? sign so thought my software was too old, but it's on the left side in the middle. The &pound; sign is on there, also, it is ALT+0163.

Cool Christina. I had no idea about the character map. Thank you!!!!!

From recent experience I have found that although most applications support the symbols created with the Alt keys and inserted using Character Map, Fodors doesn't seem to allow the Euro symbol at the moment.<BR><BR>Interestingly, it does seem to be allowing the &pound; sign again, which I couldnt achieve a few weeks back.<BR><BR>In the mean time I have just typed the full word Euro everytime I have referred to it here on Fodors.<BR><BR>Kavey

On UK keyboards ? is ctrl, alt and 4 pressed together. sometimes ctrl, alt and e works as well

although fodors doesn't accept that either, although you can actually type it in the reply box correctly it displays it in the thread as ?.

I don't use the character map to insert anything, although I think you can (ie, cut and paste from it)--I just use it to tell me the code in the righthand bottom and then I type that in myself, setting the NUMLOCK. Maybe the result is the same.<BR><BR>I never noticed that Fodors didn't show the euro sign which looked okay when I typed it, but sure enough... this is Fodors, though, as I can get the euro symbol to show up fine in my WORD documents using ALT+0128, on my MS Outlook email, and even in a free email account I have on Yahoo.

Christine; I wish you'd come over and give me 'puter lessons. That's what my Mother in law calls it. The 'puter. She's from the deep south, too, like Scarlett. In fact, they may be related. <BR><BR>Num lock? I have always wondered what that's for. What's that for? Do you mind my asking? Please forgive me if I am being weird, but I can't get the 'puter consultant to come back now that he's been paid!