If you take that option, bear in mind that silver has roughly 1/9th of the value of gold.
If you get stuck in a foreign country and you've no money....
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Coincidently I was talking with someone last night who told me about a guy who got stuck here (Ibiza). Not quite 100% in the mind, he wrote letters to the Queen everyday asking her to buy him a ticket back to the UK 
Dear Liz...
Lots of people get stuck here. Mostly due to seasonal work which unexpectedly dries up. People tend to work hard and party hard in summer not saving money to move on at the end of the holiday season.
If you have work elsewhere, or if you have any other good reason to be elsewhere and don't have cash, there are Two organisations here who will help. This is very specific to Spain. Plenty of the homeless population on the streets here are foreign visitors who stopped traveling when they ran out of money. Very easy to survive without cash.
Someone has already mentioned gold, or silver. I know a guy who keeps a very expensive watch hidden out of sight for emergency funds. It is a costly option though.
Dear Liz...Lots of people get stuck here. Mostly due to seasonal work which unexpectedly dries up. People tend to work hard and party hard in summer not saving money to move on at the end of the holiday season.
If you have work elsewhere, or if you have any other good reason to be elsewhere and don't have cash, there are Two organisations here who will help. This is very specific to Spain. Plenty of the homeless population on the streets here are foreign visitors who stopped traveling when they ran out of money. Very easy to survive without cash.
Someone has already mentioned gold, or silver. I know a guy who keeps a very expensive watch hidden out of sight for emergency funds. It is a costly option though.
scared wife
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is there any way to get someone home that is in Malaysia have tried to raise money but had no luck My very good friend is stuck there went for a job got stiffed by the people that he did the job for and now his mom has passed away how do i get him home he has a little girl that needs her dad he is all she has any one have an answer for me or can you help bring him home
JimW
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Living with the gran until she died?
Whipround and money transfer seems your best bet.
scared wife
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never though he would be stuck he went on good faith that he would get paid
scared wife
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what is whipround i have never heard about this
scared wife
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cybershot has any one heard of this group
JimW
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George & Bill
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I once missed a plane back from Berlin and had no money for another one. This was just after the largesse of the early days of budget air travel had been reigned in – not long before, I'd simply been chucked free of charge on the next flight when I turned up after check-in had closed.
A couple on the train back into town gave me €20 and I called up an acquaintance who offered me a floor to sleep on. The next day I took the metro to Unter den Linden and went to the British Consulate, expecting, I think, to be taken into a wood-panelled office and politely told to fuck off. Instead, I was told irritably to fuck off by a woman sitting behind a screen made of toughened glass. In my case, all I had to do was make one humiliating call to my mum. I guess others would have had a long hitch hike ahead of them.
The general rule in this world, though, is that if you've always been poor, nobody will give a fuck about you, but if you were relatively rich until five minutes ago before coming a cropper as a result of your own stupidity, you'll be inundated by offers of support. As such, I suspect any Western tourist idiotic enough to run out of cash in Kenya would be kept in fairly good stead at the expense of local people (many of whom can only dream of going off galavanting around the world), until such a time as an article appears about them in the Daily Mail and a GoFundMe page is set up.
A couple on the train back into town gave me €20 and I called up an acquaintance who offered me a floor to sleep on. The next day I took the metro to Unter den Linden and went to the British Consulate, expecting, I think, to be taken into a wood-panelled office and politely told to fuck off. Instead, I was told irritably to fuck off by a woman sitting behind a screen made of toughened glass. In my case, all I had to do was make one humiliating call to my mum. I guess others would have had a long hitch hike ahead of them.
The general rule in this world, though, is that if you've always been poor, nobody will give a fuck about you, but if you were relatively rich until five minutes ago before coming a cropper as a result of your own stupidity, you'll be inundated by offers of support. As such, I suspect any Western tourist idiotic enough to run out of cash in Kenya would be kept in fairly good stead at the expense of local people (many of whom can only dream of going off galavanting around the world), until such a time as an article appears about them in the Daily Mail and a GoFundMe page is set up.
planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
Wouldn't be so stupid 
as to strand myself in a country with no money at all but certainly know what it's like to be there with no access to money. Worst was a place called Nam Tok in Thailand, basically the end of the line of the railway that runs over the bridge over the River Kwai. Went there knowing there was at least one tourist attraction - Sai Yok Noi waterfall - so assumed there were cash facilities. There weren't. At least no Visa facilities unless you were prepared to walk miles on the off chance. This coupled with offered accommodation of dirty room (broken glass on the floor, puppy shit on the doorstep) meant a not wholly successful visit. Being somewhere 8000 miles from home with no money is not a good feeling.
Also, in Laos, and to what became my favourite place in the world. Muang Ngoi, reachable only (then) by 7 hour boat trip. Obviously has no cash machines (didn't even have electricity that first time). Didn't let that deter me. Straight back the next day (to Luang Prabang) to get the required cash. And back to Muang Ngoi. That's dedicated boat travel for you. And stupidity.
Fuck it. Spent 5 days on paradise Perhentian Islands too eeking out what we had on us. We're good at travelling without money. And water.
as to strand myself in a country with no money at all but certainly know what it's like to be there with no access to money. Worst was a place called Nam Tok in Thailand, basically the end of the line of the railway that runs over the bridge over the River Kwai. Went there knowing there was at least one tourist attraction - Sai Yok Noi waterfall - so assumed there were cash facilities. There weren't. At least no Visa facilities unless you were prepared to walk miles on the off chance. This coupled with offered accommodation of dirty room (broken glass on the floor, puppy shit on the doorstep) meant a not wholly successful visit. Being somewhere 8000 miles from home with no money is not a good feeling.Also, in Laos, and to what became my favourite place in the world. Muang Ngoi, reachable only (then) by 7 hour boat trip. Obviously has no cash machines (didn't even have electricity that first time). Didn't let that deter me. Straight back the next day (to Luang Prabang) to get the required cash. And back to Muang Ngoi. That's dedicated boat travel for you. And stupidity.
Fuck it. Spent 5 days on paradise Perhentian Islands too eeking out what we had on us. We're good at travelling without money. And water.
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