Reminds me of some geniuses in the UK delegation at last year's EYP (European Youth Parliament) in Turin. They brought a BS1363 to Schuko adaptor and wanted to use their hairdryers or whatever. No idea what they thought about Italy and sockets...
Well, the youth hostel had combo sockets (Italian/Schuko side by side) so I guess they finally got to use it, but anyway it was a weird idea to take a Schuko adaptor to Italy.