I finally landed in Europe.
Endless movies that I watched, millions of times I drooled and dreamed of being here and finally the 2010's last surprise was this trip to Munich on 30th Dec 2010.
Just as checked into the room I realized that my travel adapter is not compatible with the Indian power chord. I bought this one in Singapore and alas this is useless here in Europe as I can't use it with my Indian laptop. I borrowed the adapter from Monnappa (my Saviour in Deutschland) but the problem persisted. Usually the solution of the problem is to walk down to the hotel reception and request them but there was some Indian fellow who very rudely said "No".
We tried going to the Saturn store but it was closed due to new year's eve. Today we realised it was a Saturday and a public holiday. Interestingly almost whole of the city will be closed even tomorrow ! We again checked at the reception and this time the German Lady helped with a hundreds of chargers but alas there was nothing that could have been useful.
So I started processing all the resources I had. With a long walk to the Marienplatz I was making up my mind to prepare an ad-hoc connector. With a little bit of insulating material and a European power point compatible cable I would be able to provide power to my laptop adapter.
And this is what we have.
Pulled out an old PSP cable and chopped off the other end. I have a Nikon Charger which shares the cable and I will use the same to power the connector for PSP. I pulled out the wires using the Kitchen Knife and rolled it out on the switch. Now I needed something to insulate it as there as no insulating tape available and I slit open and old polythene bag rolled it into thin sheet and then rolled it and tied it on the corners. So for until I find a shop which has a power adapter that can convert an Indian Adapter to fit into a European power plug I have an ad-hoc converter.
1 comment:
wow ! nice ....ur story reminds me of our Paris trip :)
enjoy
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