Ah yes!

We were definitely way off the mark. Not being able to read Czech makes it easy to be looking about a mile away from where you ought to be looking. Ah well, we got plenty of exercise and we never stop learning. Thanks for all the help.

We were off to Prague before we read your message, but we did have a go at the Royal Road. We haven't been in touch with the owner yet as recuperation is needed. We achieved all the clues accept one, which gave us two possible answers depending upon how the "frame of the plaque on Charles Bridge was made up. Putting either of the two numbers into the final location, took us to the area of Mozarts Museum on the west side of the river, but GZ was inaccessible. We thought it may be within a fenced off area with what looked like gravestones, but the gate was chained up - the gps still read about 100m further on which was a very, very steep hill full of trees. We tried to get to the other side, involving yet more climbing, but it was a building site with razor wire fence. All in all, a very exhausting search in which we must have walked about four miles up some steep hills. Our trusty gps was acting up all day and proved most unreliable. One thing it did bring home, is that a normal walking compass will be a must in the future. There's a good chance we were no-where near the final area!!! We had enjoyed the multi cache up until the miserable end. From this description, were we anywhere near the cache??? Cheers.

Thanks John for your message. Looking at your profile, I reckon you'd know what could be described as cachitus. We haven't achieved this level yet but, as we're fairly close to your neck of the woods, it could be catching.

I only gave very brief thought to doing a multi in Prague. Just trying to make headtail of the description written in Czech was enough to give me the colliewobbles, so they're all single caches we're aiming for.

Thank you for your good wishes Dorsetgal - give GeoDog a pat from us.

It would be interesting to find your little raggy doll and bring her back. One problem could be that a TB left in a cache in Prague, could be retrieved the same or next day as most of the caches seem to be visited daily or every 2-3 days....boggles my mind a little. Don't know if we'll have access to the geocache website over there but, if you let us have the latest cache detail, we can see if it's a possible visit.

We've been cachers for a couple of years and have reached 91 finds currently, so we're not what you may call "really experienced", with less than a handful of caches found outside the UK. We're heading for Prague, Czech Republic at the end of February for a four day, 50th Anniversary, break. I checked the caches for the Prague area and have noted about ten to fill in any spare time and was surprised to see about 120 caches within about 2km of the place we're staying. A little further away, the cache population seems even higher. With a few exceptions, most of the caches seem to have been found in February 09....most are marked as "yesterday" and "today". A very high proportion are quiz based caches, but just a few are in English and the Czech language is very difficult to grasp. So, am I anywhere near correct in thinking that cachers in Prague have got the addiction facture?

We've been cachers for a couple of years and have reached 91 finds currently, so we're not what you may call "really experienced", with less than a handful of caches found outside the UK. We're heading for Prague, Czech Republic at the end of February for a four day, 50th Anniversary, break. I checked the caches for the Prague area and have noted about ten to fill in any spare time and was surprised to see about 120 caches within about 2km of the place we're staying. A little further away, the cache population seems even higher. With a few exceptions, most of the caches seem to have been found in February 09....most are marked as "yesterday" and "today". A very high proportion are quiz based caches, but just a few are in English and the Czech language is very difficult to grasp. So, am I anywhere near correct in thinking that cachers in Prague have got the addiction facture?

Very true.........we try to "comb" the sorry looking nettles back into place with a walking pole. Or perhaps trample down a lot more nettles to spread the area of activity, laying false trails........the trouble we go to, in the cause!

If a walking pole and size ten boots don't work, try a claymore in great sweeping strokes. It didn't work for us against the Scottish midges though. Give me nettles rather than midges any day.