This will happen: you’ll go to plug in your camera to recharge it, and discover that the electrical outlets are misshapen and supply weird juice.
“Nuts!” you’ll shriek. No charge – no pictures – the vacation wrecked. You’ll crumple in despair, an empty husk of suffering, mutilated with regret that you’d not researched the matter sufficiently in advance.
So here’s what you need to know. Iceland uses 240 volts – double Canada's voltage – and the outlets accept only European 2-pin plugs:
“Nuts!” you’ll shriek. No charge – no pictures – the vacation wrecked. You’ll crumple in despair, an empty husk of suffering, mutilated with regret that you’d not researched the matter sufficiently in advance.
So here’s what you need to know. Iceland uses 240 volts – double Canada's voltage – and the outlets accept only European 2-pin plugs:
Chargers for Apple products and many other sorts of gadgets are “dual voltage” and are safe to use, as is any equipment that says “120V-240V” on it somewhere.
Depending on when you bought it, that charger may even have come with extra sets of prongs that you can swap in. But if you need an external doohickey to convert the physical shape of the prongs, we can provide some of those.
Abandon all hope of using your Canadian hair dryer in Iceland. It will just catch fire in your hand. We'll find you a local one.
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