man, I just wish Europe could finally agree on a simple thing like common power plugs. For heaven's sake, that can't be so difficult now, can it? After all, all it'd take would be an investment of 50 Fr. or so for adapter plugs in order to use your old appliances with new standard sockets and within 10 years the transition would be over and forgotten.

I guess this shows just how far we're away from getting rid of the nation state mentality on this continent...

peter