I don't have a home phone so I can't call or fax from home, and I have't checked Kinkos or anything but I bet it's pricey. I just want to send one page to book a room at a B&B that insists on not doing it by email.
Is there an online service that won't ask for my life history and spam me forevermore that I can use to send a fax over the web?

Hola.

Is there not an internet cafe or virtual office shop anywhere near you?

Most internet cafes out here in Spain have a fax service. just take it to them and give them the number to send it to.

Best of luck.

Clive

I sent a one page fax to Italy from either Kinko's or Mail Boxes Etc. and it cost about $7.50.

I gave up my fax line when we signed on with Vonage because it was going to be another $9.95 per month. If I had to send many faxes I would take the service again because that would add up in a hurry. A lot of the places I booked accommodation with did not have secure web sites so I had to fax my credit card information.

You could try efax, though it will still cost you something ($1 or less, I think) to send a fax from a free account. If you sign up for their "premium" service, then fax is included, but it then has a monthly fee. And I can't promise they won't spam you! But they are reasonably restrained about it, ie., you won't get 10 messages a day, more like 1 a week.

Doesn't Windows come with Fax software - make the fax in Word and have the computer send it? I guess you would have to have a phone modem in your computer - they don't all have that now.

If you can't figure it out, email me the fax as a word doc, I will print it and fax it. I use that Tel3 long distance card for calling Europe and it costs almost nothing.

With dial-up Internet, I sent faxes from my home computer if it could be a text document created on the computer. Now I have DSL from the phone company; I asked their tech. support about faxing with that and they said it isn't easily done, check for information on DSL in the fax software documentation. I gave up and used the fax at work, reimbursing the phone charges.