So it’s going to rain between now and, oooh, October, isn’t it?
When I went over in 2000, I used my regular Canadian debit card (which is on a separate system than Mastercard or Visa) in ATMs all over northern Europe without problem. Canadian debit cards are linked to one of the Plus, Maestro or Cirrus interregional networks.
Your card should be on one of Plus, Maestro, or Cirrus. If you can find an ATM on the same one, you should be okay.
Right. I walked up to an ATM in Florence thinking, ‘Shit, I should have called the bank before leaving…what if they reject this.?’ But it worked just fine. Still I’d cover that base just to be 100% sure before leaving.
If you use your PIN in letter format, make sure you know what it is in numbers. European ATM’s don’t usually have letters on their buttons. I had to draw a diagram and fill it in with letters to figure out what mine is in letters when I first visited France.
ATMs only have numbers in Britain certainly. I’ve often wished they had letters because a password is easier to remember than a number, but, no, numbers it is.
This was not the case on our trip.
Everything looked right - our card logo matched the ATM logo, etc. etc. But they would not work, despite many calls to the credit card company.
Prepare yourself for disappointment…
To quote the Crap Towns article on Dover :-
*Most people when thinking of Dover think it will be horrible because of the immigration problems. They are Daily Mail readers, and therefore wrong and stupid. Immigrants are the best thing that ever happened to Dover, balancing out the hordes of horrible 12 year old mothers, fat till workers called Stacey and skagheads who intimidate you into giving them change.
This is the first place foreigners will see when arriving by boat. No wonder nobody comes here on holiday.*
Wow, I had missed that bit. Cool to see Dover? 
Scratches head in bemusement. Oh well, the OP will probably already be travelling by now, so I hope it’s all good.
Leaving in a few hours 
I know Dover itself is lame (I’ve seen the travel documentaries), but the idea of it is cool.
I read that as a jab at people who casually dismiss Daily Mail readers as bigots, while being unwittingly class-conscious themselves. The “nobody comes here” bit surely means that they are joking. A little bit of satire by the Crap Town boys?
None of which lets Dover off the hook. It is a bit of a dump. Although it’s not as bad as Crawley. If visitors want to know how dismal British towns can be, Crawley is right there, a mere taxi ride away from Gatwick arrivals.
The cliffs really are cool though.
Have a great holiday!