Travel Adapters
So I am off to Geneva on business, and I make a list of things I need to remember to take. On that list is a travel adapter, so I can charge up my MacBookPro and iPhone during the trip. So a quick Google reveals that Switzerland does NOT use the same plug and socket as Europe, they are uniquely different, just like the UK.
They have their own very special way of doing things.
No problem. Cant blame a country for being different! In fact different is good. It’s one of the reasons I like to travel.
So I look at the full suite of travel adapters that we already own, including an International plug-ib0plug type thingy, and it seems that with my current set up I can go to just about every country in the world except Switzerland.
No problem I think……. quick trip into town should solve this.
Tesco: No. Europe and USA only
Sainsbury: Everywhere except Switzerland
Boots: They believe people dont travel during October, so cleared their shelves of everything except Europe. They went “upstairs” to check their stock, and ….no… No Switzerland
Superdrug: Everywhere except Switzerland.
I even popped into a travel agent to ask them… and they didnt have a clue that Switzerland was even different. Why would they? Its not like travel advice is their job or anything.
So here I am… leaving for the airport in 30mins, with no adapter for Switzerland.
I am hoping that Luton airport has some.
Surely… they will….. even Boots at the airport must accept that some people would want to go to Switzerland? Right?
Hang on…… thats a thought… am I blisfully unaware of some international agreement to stop visitors to Switerland?
Have they offended the international retailers of the world?
Am I about to fly into an international incident…?
If you dont hear from me again, you know whats happened. My iPhone battery is dead, my super long lasting MacBook battery has died, and I am stuck in a country that likes to be different.
I’m thinking a trip to the Apple store in Geneva may be on the cards…