Or rather, my client who is there for the summer, his usual lifestyle. He's a pretty canny retired UAH prof, so he protected himself in advance by drawing down his cards' limits in cash for a while. However, there are lines of pensioners waiting outside the banks at 1:00 AM, waiting for banks to briefly open to draw down their $60 max. I know that predominant sentiment here is going to be here that the Greeks made their beds - and they did. However, I was caught in Switzerland in 1972 when the dollar and gold standard crashed. I had a pile of worthless Travelers' Checks and an Amex office with a "closed until further notice" sign on the front door. I could draw down daily $50 for a family of five at Credit Suisse. Each time I went in, I had to endure an argument with the manager about how profligate the US had been in spending - hard to take from a sanctimonious Swiss. I eventually fled Interlaken for Bern, where I could exchange $300 at an awful exchange rate (no complaints). A little hotel let us stay for several days - on credit, to send them a check from back home! I've blessed their memories ever since. Of course, at the the temporary exchange rates, we couldn't even afford to eat at that their expensive French restaurant. All this to say I know acutely how the elderly Greeks feel, having been caught in a currency crisis myself...