BY BRIAN OGLE

SWEDEN may be one of Europe’s more expensive countries, but as I found out recently you can spend four or five days in its stunning capital Stockholm without it costing you a penny – or rather a krona! That is of course, as long as you’ve got a healthy balance on your credit card!
For the catch is you must have plastic to survive as a tourist on the streets of the Baltic Sea beauty, as hard cash is disappearing rapidly. Indeed, it’s forecast the city could be completely cashless in five years time… So if you haven’t used a credit card to buy an ice cream, a hot dog or a bar of chocolate before, you’d better get used to it to enjoy your stay not only in Stockholm, but the other Scandinavian capitals where plastic rules the roost.
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