40 Interesting And Helpful Charts And Infographics For Every Traveler Out There

I'm still waiting for standardized clothing and shoe sizes.

Yes! But it’s hard to do now, because any transition toward different type of socket would be painful today with all the appliances we have at home.

Even more interesting, in the UK (only users of the “purple” plug) while this type is now most common, in an older house you may find one or even two different types than this. I lived in a house built in the early 1900s and the newer parts had the square pin but other older rooms still had the round pin and some outlets were two rather than three pin.

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Green is bad because it doesn't guarantee that the phase is on the left (which can be really dangerous in some cases and destroy older equipment if plugged in wrong). Blue is fully compatible with green though. The blue outlets have the grounding strips as well, but they guarantee that phase is in the left hole. And you can't plug the equipment wrong. Also, the blue type does wire ground first, and then phase, which isn't true for the green type. And to be clear - it's Type F and Type E respectively. UK has Type G which is another beast of an outlet. They even have fuses in the plugs. Imagine your fuse blows in your kettle and the rest of the house is still powered.

Plugs from the blue zone typically work with the green zone outlets. The ground pin is male on the wall socket and female on the power plug, which typically also has the indents on the top and bottom in order to work with both systems. This type of plug makes the system very widely compatible in nearly all of europe. Ungrounded plugs will work anywhere in europe

Packing cubes were a lifesaver for me.

Same, everything goes from organized to a chaos even I can't figure out.

Same

If he had not said a price beforehand, why would you then pay?

Same happened to me in Milan. Some Africans came and just tried to put these on the wrists of some people in our group as a free gift, then they demanded money as a "donations to Africa"

Oh don't tell me you actually fell for that one! Wow, so gullible. /s

That’s a robbery not a scam. When someone anywhere pulls a gun on you and wants your stuff,that’s being robbed. Don’t refuse because most of the people doing that stuff in the US are junkies or gang bangers that don’t value lives at all. They’ll shoot you for nothing

I've heard that if you give them something to eat, they pretend to get sick because of it. Even they vomit out blood(fake of course)...Then their other counterparts come there and start asking what have you given him, and they threaten to call the police. And finally, settle the whole thing by taking some compensation.

I always carry extra snacks and water for the kids and people who asked for it because so many are so poor and food and water are a necessity.

Try to do that at the Milan Centro baggage claim. Stood my ground and they relented

And North America are the grumpy ones lol

Poor UK sockets though 😨

It's kinda cute. Like the smile face.

not in all places. i'm from australia and i went to a couple of different cities in china and we had to either put in an adapter for some. but i can't account for all of China, this was just a few different places lol

Thanks for the info. I was not aware of the vast differences in our power supplies.

If your luggage is lost or delayed the airport is required to compensate you by law.

How?

It's probably more of an indication of attitudes towards women in that country.

The Global Gender Index doesn't measure only pay gap - other measurements include: education, political power, health etc - and as @'Aunt Riarch' mentioned, it provides the general ingrained attitude towards women.

Maybe just a general indication of how the country values women