No cell phone —-Denmark and Scotland

Do you have a contactless/tap-to-pay card? That's all you need for payment.

Sorry, this is a but confusing - what has not having a phone got to do with paying by card? If you don't have a phone and Google or Apple Pay, just tap your contactless card - I'm pretty sure virtually all cards are contactless nowadays, but check for the four curved lines symbol on your card if you're unsure.

That said, I wouldn't call Scotland cashless - while virtually everywhere accepts card (and many places prefer it), most still accept cash if required. There will be some places that are card only, but not as many as you seem to be concerned about. If you only had cash, you'd still be fine.

You can survive without a cellphone. You may come across a few places like restaurants and pubs that use QR codes to scan for menus and ordering. Or a museum that only has downloadable guides.

I will caution that if you plan on doing more international travel in the future you may want to invest in a smartphone. Every trip to Europe it seems harder and harder to accomplish things without a phone. Heck, I can't even shop my local grocery stores without my phone in case I missed "clipping" a coupon.

"Every trip to Europe it seems harder and harder to accomplish things without a phone. Heck, I can't even shop my local grocery stores without my phone in case I missed "clipping" a coupon."

I DO agree with Jean especially about things getting easier and easier with a phone on international trips. I did not use paper once on my recent 5-week trip although occasionally I had paper back ups for ticketing. All the timed museum entries and/or museum passes were purchased online and I showed the digital QR code. In the Louvre (I realize you are not going to France!) the audio guide for the special exhibition was a downloadable guide using QR codes.

Twice I had issues using cash in France in the last month. It WAS with trying to pay with 50E notes, though. One time I was trying to pay for my 25E meal with a 50E note and the guy literally did not have 25E in change. He even pulled down a secret stash of what I assumed was tip money and counted that out. Another time I used another 50E note for a 34E meal and got EIGHT 2E coins in return. It was clear that was generally what he was being left for tips, lol.

I agree that you can manage this trip but if you are going back to Europe I would go ahead and upgrade your tech AND your tech skills. On my last trip (just returned October 29) I used my iPhone and Apple Watch multiple times a day (and not for phone calls), my iPad mini daily and Air Pods to use with the iPhone often enough that I just kept them in my purse.

AND I could not get a couple of QR code coupons to "clip" yesterday at Fred Meyer. Grrrrr!!!!

If you have a mini Ipad then you should be able to do everything a phone does except access the internet and make phone calls when away from wifi.

If you want to have a phone to use while traveling, you can buy a basic smartphone very inexpensively, add a few apps, and use an esim for service. No need to subscribe to full time service.

Scotland is not cashless

We used to travel without a cell phone but will not travel without one now. They come in especially handy when you run into a flight snafu and have to rebook your flights. This has happened to us more frequently in the last 5 years. We had to rebook a flight home from Buenos Aires at the last minute (we had already checked in for that flight home) due to being stranded in Ushaia and having to spend the night there. Our flight from SFO to India had a significant delay due to aircraft issues and we had to rebook our flight from Munich to Delhi twice while still sitting in the plane on the tarmac in SFO so no access to a gate agent to sort things out. A snafu at Dublin airport caused our flight to be late arriving in London and we had to book a new flight home and a hotel for the night at LHR. That cellphone saved us a lot of hassle.