Euro Adaptor

[gino_76ph]

im going to France in december with me girlfriend for a week. im worried my mobile phones and camera might not last 2 days with all the sight-seeing, tours and stuff. what type of adaptor do i need? is it much practical to buy here or there?

[Funkstar]

Get one of these:
http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?...8602&doy=12m10

Fantastic travel adapter, and if things can be charged/powered from USB, then it gives you that built in, saves taking a wall wart, just the cable.

EDIT: Oh, and you can pick these up at airports all over the place too.

[gino_76ph]

is it mush practical to buy here or in France you think?

[CMC]

buy before you go... it might be harder to find a uk to european adapter when your there

[Brucelles]

Definitiely buy it in the UK. I tried for ages to find adapters in France, Luxembourg, Switzerland and now Belgium. Eventually I had my dad ship some over to me.

If you are taking the charger or a shaver or anything toy need to plug into the wall you will need an adapter, but a cheap one will probably do for everything. If not I bought some 3-way 2-pin adapters here that are about 1 Euro each. They are pretty easy to find.

[gino_76ph]

tried looking at currys and argos websites i can't find them. whereabouts can i find them?

[CMC]

chemists are usually a good bet, like boots or somewhere

[Funkstar]

How about Maplin? See the link in the post above. They have loads of others too.

Argos: Masterplug Surge Protected Travel Adaptor
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Produc...2Badaptors.htm

Currys have a whole list of them through their Partmaster site:
http://www.partmaster.co.uk/cgi-bin/...:146488,215767

EDIT: Boots, JohnLewis, B&Q, Comet, or any other highstreet electrical and hardware store should have them

[gino_76ph]

thank you. really a big help guys!

[father smurf]

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Produ...oductID=677467

[MD]

you can pick them up for a quid in the travel section in Asda, I picked up a couple for europe and a couple for the us last time i was in there...

[0iD]

I use the ones from Tesco as I seem to lose them on a regular basis. Come in a pair with a us/aus adaptor & cheap as chips.

[burble]

I seem to lose them on a regular basis.

I'm forever leaving them behind when packing my stuff up to go home. I think I've bought (on expenses) 10 or so adapters since August and have left several in France, Germany, Spain & Sweden.

I really should stop doing it because I'm in Milan this week and don't have an adapter I can use to plug my external HD in.

[schmunk]

Come and work for my employer.

In the ~6 months I've worked here they've given me two of the worldwide adapters like the one in Funkstar's Maplin link (without the USB dealie). They work really well, although they're a bit big compared to others I've used.

[tonkei]

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Produ...oductID=677467

I agree with smurf, I ordered this adaptor after scan had it in their Today Only special, the fact that it has a usb socket as well as the travel adaptor ability only makes it more useful for me