How about...
a mixture of around a dozen tri-service and multi-national spies undertake a week long mission gathering data from our garlic loving neighbours.
Imagine the fun each day exlaining to a French waiter that you want 12 reciepts for your meal!!!!!
Believe me it is just not funny - obviously capped actuals is a scheme dreamed up by some out of touch senior officer who has a bag carrier to collect all of his reciepts for him.
I'm not complaining about the amount of actuals that we had, just the fact that I am now out of pocket by several hundred pounds awaiting the adminners to agree that some badly scrawled pieces of paper (and in one case a napkin) are valid reciepts. Some of us do not yet have access to JPA but still have to manually use the system through some now rather overworked scribblies. Life use to be so much simpler when.......
Rant over