See also dropping the car key down the side of the driver’s seat into the most inaccessible spot between the seat rails and the centre console.
That was a fun one.
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I have photographs on my phone. Even if I lost my phone I think unlikely that someone would trawl through c1000 photos on the off chance.
That’s really useful to know. That changes everything.
Snap.
Another handy tip - if you have an account with Wise, you can request a purely digital VISA card, alongside the normal green physical one and its electronic counterpart.
Sounds complicated, but it means you can have two VISA cards with different numbers linked to your Wise account, either as a backup or to use for different purposes (e.g. motor expenses, or shopping).
Actually you can have up to three virtual Wise VISA cards in addition to the one physical one!
Yet another advantage of the digital Wise cards is that you can rescind them and get a new one (with a different number) at the drop of a hat online. Handy if your card number has been compromised for any reason (e.g. via a dodgy website).
How is that different to having different cards linked to ApplePay?
It’s two cards linked to the same WISE account, rather than having to manage two different credit or debit card accounts.
Ah I see. I’ve gone to a fair bit of trouble to avoid having a Wise account so that doesn’t help me. 
The best news today is that ApplePay will still work. If only I could use it at self service petrol stations.
If you have biometrics and password, highly unlikey that anyone could get near your photos.,
I was struggling to see how you would use a card that you didn’t physically have with you but I suppose that it involves a sooper dooper, smartie phone, does it? 
I think my friend Eddie pays with his phone rather than a card. Quite apart from anything else, a smartphone simply would not fit into my little wallet/purse so I would have to have 2 things to lug around with me wouldn’t I?
Or are you going to tell me that my carte vitale and driving licence could be on a phone, could it?
Still wouldn’t fit in my pocket though. 
Yes indeed it does, sir. 
The problem with storing stuff in “the cloud” is that, unless “the cloud” in question exists in secure sections of a server that you own, other people can access it.
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Well hallybloodylooya, who would have thought it, and your CV and Licence too then? 
Well I don’t have a CV yet and my UK drivers licence is still resolutely analogue, so no that side of things is not phone based yet, but might become so in the future.
Having such documents on a smart phone in the form of photographs of them is a good idea though.
When it is up to date are you sure that the gendarmes will accept an electronic slab rather than a little card? Just wondering, not considering. 
No they probably won’t - but the point of having copies of important documents in electronic form is that if you do lose them, it makes it much easier to give the details to the cops or whoever when reporting the loss.
The Gendarmes accepted being handed a phone with electronic attestations and then vax certificates during the Wuhan Flu lockdown.
Of course, that was a state issued and controlled application.
I don’t doubt you, but am interested to know why you should be absolved from having your driving licence with you, presumably left at home?
However I do know that some gendarmes have a sense of humour. After I got a new licence the printing was way too small for me to read so I kept the old one with me as well, just in case. I was stopped and I gave the man both explaining why and he shouted to his mate who was standing by their car ‘this bloke’s got 2 licences’ and they both laughed in a way I wasn’t sure was because it was a great joke or perhaps their glee at having copped a miscreant.
Happily, the former, he handed both back to me but said, mock severely, ‘destroy one of these when you get home’.
But he didn’t tell me which was which. 
I suppose that was his version of having the last laugh. 
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I heard yesterday on the TV that most UK banks have a scheme where dialling 159 will result in being asked which bank do you need and then being connected to their customer services department.
First time I had heard about it but, apparently, its been in operation since 2021.