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Left adapter in wall & can't charge phone

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ChrissyOnTheCamino

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I was at A Santiago albergue/Hotel last night snd left my Australian adapter in the wall, so l know have no way to charge my phone. I am in Atapuerca tonight snd Burgos tomorrow. Can anyone offer me any help??
Thank you
Chris
 
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If they don't have the right plug adapter (give it a chance!) then buy a standard Euro power adapter. They are not expensive. I gave up on taking my power adapter with a euro plug adapter from home long ago, and just use Euro adapters. I'm surprised it took you this long to leave your plug adapter in the wall back there. I lost three before Leon.
 
We found a Spanish charger that worked. We had to buy one more than once due to leaving them. I saw a Belkin brand charger with the USB-C online at El Corte English so I am sure they are available somewhere.
 
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ChrissyOnTheCamino said:
I was at A Santiago albergue/Hotel last night snd left my Australian adapter in the wall, so l know have no way to charge my phone. I am in Atapuerca tonight snd Burgos tomorrow. Can anyone offer me any help??
Thank you
Chris
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Obtain a EU standard charger in a local electronic or hardware store. Or, try a China store, Oriental Bazar, etc,.

Plug your USB cord into it. Save the EU charger for your next trip to this part of the world. If the charger cord was attached to the list charger, buy another one as well. It is likely a generic USB-A or USB-C cord.

The end that plugs into your phone is likely lightning, micro USB, or USB-C. You can find all of these cords locally as well.

Hope this helps,

Tom
 
Ask in your current albergue because they might have a collection of adapters from around the world that pilgrims have left behind.
 
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ChrissyOnTheCamino said:
I was at A Santiago albergue/Hotel last night snd left my Australian adapter in the wall, so l know have no way to charge my phone. I am in Atapuerca tonight snd Burgos tomorrow. Can anyone offer me any help??
Thank you
Chris
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I've done that so many times! Can't get my head around how I can unplug and leave that gadget behind! I always found a place to buy a new one.....ask a local or at Albergue (maybe they have mine!)
 
Good advice. A couple of years ago I just bought a European plug, and now I just leave my Australian plug at home and never need an adaptor.

The EU plug fits in all planes on the way over and back, and more and more you don't even need a plug as USB outlets are becoming ubiquitous.
 
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Goid suggestions here. I lost two adapters my first trip to France! This last trip I bought some hot pink duct tape and stuck pieces on all my electronics, including cords. Hard not to notice them with that bright pink!
 
As you stand facing the main entrance to the cathedral in Burgos look over to your left. There is a general purpose store that sells electrical goods. I walked in there after leaving my adaptor the night before. I had to endure a huge amount of shouting in Spanish followed by a lot of hugs but emerged with a flying lead and a "brick" with several USB outlets in it. All for a reasonable cost. ( But not worryingly low, see HenrytheDog's warning )
 
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Australia and Great Britain are two famous outliers who persist in using the HUGE three prong plug.

All of continental Europe, that I have ever been to, uses the two round pin Schuko type C plug.

In North America, we use a two-bladed, non-grounded, plug (the pins are flat and perpendicular to the floor) for non grounded small appliances.

Many folks accumulate these over their travels. I buy them in bulk, on Amazon. So, I always have one available.

Hope this helps,

Tom
 
Really, you only need something like what is illustrated on this page:

One end plugs into the wall and one end has one or more slots for your cord, just make sure your cord fits the slot. I recommend that you get one that will power at least two devices at once. These could be your phone and power bank or one of your things and one of someone else's.

If there are multiple slots they may be identical or you can find a charger where they are different shapes. My Android phone uses USB-C cords but my wife's phone uses a USB-A cord so I have chargers that accept both types.
 
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t2andreo said:
All of continental Europe, that I have ever been to, uses the two round pin Schuko type C plug.
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Not quite.
Switzerland is different. Smaller pins, and an octagonal plug shape. And Italy is different again, three pins in a row.
Others may also be different, too, but I only know these two countries.
 
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Bradypus said:
should work in Switzerland - you just use two of the three holes in a type J socket if you are using a standard two-pin type C plug.
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Nope. Prongs on my comuter plug (from the EU) were too fat, and anyway the socket was the wrong shape, and inset. My multi-plug adaptor didn't work either. My host lent me an adaptor that did work, made in the US.
 
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The two pin prongs we've been talking about really is not the standard for any country but is something that does work for most European countries. I've even read that it can be used with UK type outlets with a bit of fooling around. Anyway read about the Type C plug that works in outlets of other types here:

Power plug & outlet Type C

Plug Type C is the single most widely used international plug. It is used, for instance, in all countries of Europe except the United Kingdom, Ireland, Cyprus and Malta.
www.worldstandards.eu
 
Rick of Rick and Peg said:
I've even read that it can be used with UK type outlets with a bit of fooling around.
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I'm a Brit living in a house full of type G sockets. I've just tried lining up a Type C plug with the live and neutral ports of a Type G socket. It looks as if they would physically fit given a bit of a push. But as I don't want to test my fairly recently installed distribution board and risk cutting off my power supply I haven't actually plugged it in! Modern British sockets should have a safety device on the earth pin ("ground" for our colonial cousins) which prevents their use with a two-pin plug.
 
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Rick of Rick and Peg said:
But probably not a two-pin plug and a chopstick.
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Yes, you can push the earth pin of a UK socket in with a (non-conducting) implement and plug in a 2-pin plug. You ‘can do’ many things; but it’s not advisable.

My American friends describe UK plugs as the type of thing they would expect to use only to connect two power-stations together in the States.
 
Hi,

You can look also at the Correos post office, I lost mine also and bought one in Correos (but in Leon)
 
ChrissyOnTheCamino said:
I was at A Santiago albergue/Hotel last night snd left my Australian adapter in the wall, so l know have no way to charge my phone. I am in Atapuerca tonight snd Burgos tomorrow. Can anyone offer me any help??
Thank you
Chris
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I often do that. So does everyone else, I found out, when I realized that every albergue Lost and Found box is full of them. Yours for the asking.
 
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ChrissyOnTheCamino said:
I cant buy an Australian to Spanish adapter here (only Spanish to Australian). The iphone has a USB-C lightning cable-the end is small
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Many cities (two dozen plus) have a K-Tuin which sells Apple products, including chargers for iPhone. And I would expect lots of other stores (including at least one in every airport) to have a wall-wart with a USB-C port that an iPhone cable could plug into. Also, every airport I've been in (several dozen, three in Spain) has had a store selling "universal" adapters.
 
ChrissyOnTheCamino said:
I was at A Santiago albergue/Hotel last night snd left my Australian adapter in the wall, so l know have no way to charge my phone. I am in Atapuerca tonight snd Burgos tomorrow. Can anyone offer me any help??
Thank you
Chris
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Buy a Spanish USB plug from any supermarket or mobile store, no Australian adapter needed, it'll work fine.
 
I'm tellin' you. Just check the Lost and Found. I replaced my plug adaptors all across Spain doing this.
 
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