Better later than never and electric differences

Today I succeeded in meeting up with the friend I wanted to eat lunch with yesterday and we did eat lunch today together but...she arrived one and a half hours later. Well, she could justify her being late but I was still annoyed. Before meeting up with her I saw a swimming pool inside a nearby ship on the Seine. Come on, this is crazy!

We ate at the barge and then went to campus together. We took a double-decker suburban train to get closer to our destination. Until then I saw this kind of train only in Switzerland but the idea of more or less doubling the capacity of trains is not bad.

 

Tuesday's update: It was less cold on Monday and Tuesday than it used to be and on Tuesday I had a similar experience like back during my bachelor years. The university is heating just the same as when it was below 0 degrees. Now it is like 10 degrees outside. I felt like the university is one big sauna.

While having my sauna at the window I saw that there IS a difference between the sockets in Europe. In Hungary it's the same like in Germany and Austria (which I can confirm) and the most part of Europe. This is the classic German plug and socket (pictures exceptionally from a Wikipedia article).

Since I've been living in Switzerland, too, I can confirm that the Swiss plug and socket is different there. It's like this (from another section of the same article).

And in France there is another type of socket. At least now I get why there's a hole in the CEE 7/7 plug of my laptop.

The CEE 7/7 plug fits most of the EU countries' sockets (not sure about all Italian sockets) so that you can charge e.g. your laptop everywhere. Except for Cyprus and the UK, as I can confirm, where there is a socket like this (picture from the web site of World Standards).

In the evening I brought both of my suitcases to a friend’s place since I guess can’t bring a suitcase to campus because of the security protocol at the entrance. Or at least I don’t want to take everything out of my suitcase and get everything back again twice. This friend of mine has a pretty tiny room for himself. It’s like 8 m² big. But he put the suitcases in a storage room so both of us were at ease. I stayed at his place ‘til late in the evening while realising he had an awesome night sight on the Eiffel Tower. (I forgot to take a picture. I know, I know, it would have been way more interesting than some random sockets, sorry).