The ‘mix up’ with the Isny dates was soon eclipsed by something far more pressing. The power was out – no fridge, no nothing. One of us scrambled to notify Gitzy staff, the other hastily scoured the internet for answers.
As we waited in searing heat for the man in the golf cart (we’d heard his name was Herr Kutter – no scissors jokes, please) to come and fix our power outage, the internet search was proving enlightening, almost overly so. There appeared to be something called a 3 pin CEE adapter involved – a cable with a 3 pin plug on one end and a 2 pin socket on the other. Looking around the charging points, everyone seemed to have one. Apart from us.
Perhaps this was the solution preferred by most campers over our current method of jamming our 2 pin plug into the 3 pin socket at the charging point. Perhaps this might explain the raised eyebrows when we’d adopted this method both here and at the Albtal. Perhaps this might explain… “Shit. I think we’ve tripped the charging point. We need a 3 pin CEE adapter.”
To be precise, we needed it BEFORE the man in the golf cart came to fix our power outage and noticed we didn’t have one.
Sure enough, you could hire 3-pin CEEs from Gitzy reception – a service presumably geared towards campers who’d forgotten to bring one, as opposed to those who had no idea they existed, let alone that they needed one.
Back at the van, still no sign of the man in the golf cart – he was run ragged showing new arrivals their pitch. With the CEE connected, the Bulli sprang into life and the fridge whirred reassuringly.
When Herr Kutter did show, he couldn’t remember why he had a note to come see us. We used the opportunity to avoid any discussion of power outages and check availability for a space where we could pitch our tent. There were 2 options, we chose the one backing onto the woods. 30 minutes later we were winding our way past the 2 Gitzy lakes to our new home.