I hosed myself hard

This morning, leaving the albergue of horrors (that’s for a blog post after the trip), I pulled my charger from the communal charging station and the US-EU converter slipped off.

You’d think that a town like Astorga has a shop selling a US/EU converter or a new charger. Nope to both. I have to make do with what I could get, the worlds shittest 18W charger that managed to get my phone from 55 to 75 percent in two hours, not even mentioning the time it took to get my watch charged.

Until Ponferrada I’ll thus be without reliable phone, watch, or tablet charge. I might be able to find an albergue where charging overnight is an option, but most places have communal charging areas and I’d rather not leave my hardware there unattended. Damn, I really need that 100W monster to work again, let’s hope…Read more