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Thieves grab-and-run with Smart Phones

06/26/14 by Paris-Travel | Blog, Paris Travel Tips | 1 Comment »

A word of caution when you’re in Paris and you’re walking around with smart phones

iPhone, Android, or iPad/tablets etc

Don’t be paranoid, be sensible with your phone, and DON’T make it easy for thieves to grab and run off with your expensive technology.

DON’T sit your phone/iPad on a café table (which I’m guilty of here in Australia) because these devices can fetch around 500 Euros on the black market.

Be cautious and careful and put your smart phone away where it can’t be grabbed when you’re walking the streets of Paris, in cafés and on public transport. If you have a backpack, handbag or some other bag you can carry in front of you where you can keep an eye on it, that’s best.

PS — BACK UP YOUR SMART DEVICE’S DATA before you arrive in Paris — better to be safe than sorry, right?

Looking at maps and information on your smart phone in Paris

If you’re standing in the street and want to look up maps etc, considering going inside a cafe or somewhere more secure.  Thieves are grabbing phones out of tourists’ hands because they’re small, easy to grab and easy to sell.

Make it harder, go and sit somewhere where it will be more difficult to snatch anything out of your hands.

I know all this sounds scary, but it makes sense when you’re travelling to be super vigilant with anything you own that costs hundreds of dollars to replace.

How to back up smart phones

Plug your phone into your laptop.

• iTunes will launch
• an automatic back-up will be performed by iTunes.

While you’re in Paris, it’ll be a good idea to back up your phone often, especially if your taking lots of photos and videos, and adding lots of new friends into your Contact list.

Got any tips on using smart phones when travelling? I’d love to hear from you – I can post your tips here on this page — thanks in advance!

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How to use a foreign laptop plug

07/14/12 by Paris-Travel | Paris Travel Tips, Tourist Tips | No Comments »

Want to know how to use a foreign laptop plug while you’re in Paris?

When you’re going to be in Paris with your laptop, and you’re coming from another country, there are 2 things to consider:

1. the plug which will go into a wall socket, and
2. the voltage of your computer.

This video shows my Australian power cord plug, and how I get it to work while I’m in Paris. Luckily the French voltage (220v) and Australian voltage (240v) are very similar, so I don’t need a Voltage Converter. But you might. The last thing you should do is plug in your computer without findout FIRST whether you need a voltage converter — you run the risk of blowing up your hard drive.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfkpOcFSbx0

Want to view on Youtube? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfkpOcFSbx0

Transcript of “How to use a foreign laptop plug”

How To Use A Foreign Laptop Plug in Paris
with Teena Hughes of  https://a-night-in-paris.com

With my laptop plug from Australia we have 3 prongs so what I needed to do was get a little attachment (plug converter) so that it would fit into the French system. So I simply got this little plug adapter here that just pushes on, and makes the two flat rods turn into round rods and also it pushes the height further away from the third prong for the Australian plug.

So all I had to do basically was just plug these two prongs into any electrical outlet here in this Parisian apartment and it worked just fine. So that’s all you have to do. Nothing special. So just get yourself one of these little plug adapters to go from Australian plugs to European plugs, and of course this will depend on which country you’re in.

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Welcome to Paris France with Teena Hughes

If you’re not close to any shops, you can also buy these online – here’s the exact same one I have and it’s available online at Amazon:

Got any tips of your own on how to use a foreign laptop plug?

If you have any great suggestions and would like to share them, let me know and I’ll post them here; thanks in advance! View more Paris Travel Tips.