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    TB Hotel In Seefeld Or Innsbruck Austria ?

    in All Nations

    Posted

    Hi, i am flying to Austria in September landing in Innsbruck and wondered if there are any TB hotels close to the Airport.

    I will be staying in Seefeld, so if there is a cache able to accomadate a TB in this town even better. I apologise for being an ignorant

    Englishman who never botherd to learn any other language other than his own. But i now find myself at the mercy of some kind soul

    who hopefully will take pity on me and furnish me with this information. Thank You in advance.

     

    may i suggest the following:

    1 enter "seefeld austria" in the search field at the geocaching.com page

    2 press enter :-)

    3 enjoy a list of geocaches in and around the specified location

     

    or do it the easy way by using the following link:

    here and there and everywhere

    driving in Jordan

    in All Nations

    Posted

    A friend and I went to Jordan in 2008 for a kind of guided tour for two :-) and we really enjoyed the work the driver did for us!

     

    The pros: no hassle at the numerous miltary and police check points along the dead sea and elsewhere, no hassle with finding a

    petrol pump, no hassle at the hotels with getting a comfortable room or at the ticket offices. Of course you pay for it but

    you get quite some comfort in return. and the perhaps the most important thing: you can enjoy the car ride itself and enjoy

    the nicer pubs and restaurants :-)

     

    The cons: you pay for it. Maybe you should contact an travel agency experienced in Middle East travels beforehand.

    EGYPT & JORDAN GEOCACHING - help needed for Google Earth Maps

    in All Nations

    Posted

    You're welcome OzzieBear!

    Btw, we'll be in the area too. Starting with February, 6th., theplank team

    will be on tour in Syria, unfortunately just for one week ...

     

    Should you go to Petra and I'm quite sure you will have a glance at it :-),

    try to fetch this one more or less at the end of the valley: http://coord.info/GC282A we did it in 2008/02

    and/or this one definitely worth the short hike (at the end of the valley and then up the hill): http://coord.info/GC1QGRP (hidden after our journey)

    even if you don't find the cache, you'll see the end of the world (simply great!)

     

    Enjoy your trip and keep on caching!

    EGYPT & JORDAN GEOCACHING - help needed for Google Earth Maps

    in All Nations

    Posted

    Thank you both for replying to my query. Maybe I am worrying too much about maps for this area. However, I was able to download maps for Egypt & Jordan. I have a file called "gmapsupp.img" but not recognisable by MapSource. Does anyone know how I can turn this file into a ".gdb" file? so I can add it to my Australian maps & make a new mapset?

     

    there is a simple reason for your problem: you need some other files too, not only the *.img

     

    since you probably downloaded openstreetmap maps, I suggest that you

    1. go there: http://garmin.na1400.info/routable.php

    2. make your choice what maps you really need to download

    3. enter a valid email address

    4. wait some minutes, hours, ...

    5. follow the instructions given by mail

     

    it worked perfectly for me and should do so for you too :-)

    European Union - evolution the last couple of years per member state

    in All Nations

    Posted

    But in many countries the caches description on geocaching.com are also only in these countries languages (for example: Germany, Czech Republic). It's mean that gc.com is also NOT international.

     

    It is not (only) the problem of the cache descriptions but the fact that only a small fraction of caches hidden

    in Hungary are published on gc.com, the vast majority is published exclusively on gc.hu. There are even

    caches in Austria and probably in other countries too, which are published on gc.hu solely and not on any

    other (international) platform. Finding a traditional with an hungarian decription should not be the problem as

    long as you are able to get the basic information that there is one ...

    Caches in Uganda

    in All Nations

    Posted

    [...]Aren't you the owner of the 100 Days of Madness Cache? I had a few questions about that cache if you're willing and able to answer them... Is the difficulty on the cache reflective of how hard it is to find or how difficult it is to be at the memorial? Also, do the people that work there know about the cache? How difficult was it to get permission to put a cache at this location (I'm just curious)?

     

    Hi xaraphim,

     

    Since you are obviously interested in rwandese caches, please allow me a just a little suggestion allowing

    you to fetch two caches in more or less the same time: http://www.opencaching.de/viewcache.php?wp...amp;desclang=EN

     

    greetings from vienna, austria

     

    Wolfgang aka theplank

    sort of a newby question

    in All Nations

    Posted · Edited by theplank

    question #1: as simple as that, no

    question #2: why not, as long as you have the coordinates. and you should have the

    coordinates travelling with a gpsr

    not asked for: the string search is done only in the cache's title and not in the description too

     

    greeting from vienna, the plank

    GPSr ?

    in How do I...?

    Posted

    I am usually pretty good about figuring these type of things out, but .... what does the 'r' mean when appended to 'GPS' ?

     

    Doesn't affect my ability to read and understand the posts/replies, but curiosity is killing me :):D:D:P

     

    Thank you

     

    Ken

     

    the "r" in GPSr definitely stands for "receiver"

    Greek vs. Greeklish vs. English

    in Greece (Hellas) & Cyprus

    Posted

    ...

    It will be a little difficulty to write in english all the conversations that we have.

    ...

    Hi Sakis, I never would dare to request the Greek community to write in English.

    I just proposed not to start a topic with an English topic title and then, from the first

    contribution on, write in Greek or Greeklish. If I see an Greek or Greeklish topic title

    I simply don't open the thread, that's all.

     

    ... But don’t worry.Many of us we speak passably english so you are wellcome to ask

    anythink you like ,everytime you like.Even you can strart a conversation in english. ...

    I never doubted that and I had many occasions to enjoy it.

     

    ... Best regards fron sunny Greece

    sakis

    You and your country are so privileged, we are freezing here in Vienna (5° C).

    Nevertheless warm regards from cold, clouded and damp Vienna

     

    The Plank

    Greek vs. Greeklish vs. English

    in Greece (Hellas) & Cyprus

    Posted

    Hi Greek friends!

     

    Since I am interested in what's going on in your great country,

    I even own 3 caches on Paros island, I enjoy to have, at least from time

    to time, a look in the Greek forum. So please allow me just one wish:

     

    Could you please begin a topic in "at least" Greeklish when the contributions

    are (expected to be) written in Greek or Greeklish? As I don't understand neither

    Greek nor Greeklish threads with english topic title but written in Greek or Greeklish

    are somewhat frustrating for me.

     

    Warm greetings from Vienna, Austria

     

    Wolfgang aka The Plank

    Roman Holiday

    in Italian-Speaking

    Posted

    :laughing: I am heading to Rome in a few days and I am hoping to find at least one cache. I am just having a hard time getting the coordinates for Rome. Still sort of new to geocaching. Any ideas or help would be great!

     

    just one out of a bunch ...

     

    greetings from austria

     

    the plank

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