Adopt, Adapt and Improve

We’d been wondering what sort of adapter that we’d need for our trip to China. We’d asked our travel agent through an online chat forum; who told us it was the same as the UK but then it turned out they were looking up Japan as our query had been passed from someone else. The web gave conflicting advice as different people stayed at different hotels. No doubt these people had come unprepared and had to think about buying adapters while they were over there; but why waste time and money when you can do it at home? I’d have just been happy if we’d been told that USB charging was available; but my travelling companion had appliances with a UK plug. In the end I asked my boss who’d already been; who sent a picture of a three-slit plug with the lower two connecters at forty-five degree angles. The first hotel that we stopped in seemed to have adapters for British appliances and we started to worry. But from the second hotel onwards, we used them every time.