Holidays!

Depends where you are going.
Last year, in Italy, they still prefer cash in hand in a lot of out of the way places. I think the Italian tax man is not so keen on this. I recall being stopped by the civilian police in 2013 after buying a bottle of water in a shop and asked for the till receipt. Checking to make sure the tourist wasn't being taken advantage of.

Depends on your bank also, some still like to charge a fee for every transaction.

About two lifetimes ago, I worked for a company that decided to give some of us a company Amex card.
I clearly remember trying to buy petrol with it in a rural Norfolk garage and being told to go forth and multiply…

The standard fast food in Israel is Felafel in Pitta. Cheap, nutricious if a little cumbersone to eat cleanly. In days of yore (before tax inspectors), a straight cut across the pitta about 10% in, opened it up and the slice removed tossed in the bin. The tax office realised that it they counted the number of tossed slices they could work out the turnover of the operation. Thus they discovered significant under reporting of income (shock! Horror! Who knew!?).

So now the pitta is only sliced through one side, leaving an attached flap and no tossed slices... But these days you also get a receipt.

Sounds like a decent way to spent one’s golden years, Humph. (I nearly wrote ‘sunset years’ but that would have been unkind.)
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Swap you. I've just had three days whiteboarding.
Not a glamorous, water based, outdoorsy pursuit on a river somewhere warm with foaming white rapids but locked up in a room with eleven other people drawing on walls mixed with a digital wall to draw on in a cloud somewhere. Luckily, we had windows of the not Microsoft variety which we could open and listen to the roar of jet engines coming and going at the international courier parcel hub nearby.

I am so looking forwards to the football and a beer or three.

Pretty impressive. Have you got any relatives who may have been European?? Get an EU passport and go as often as you like...