Planning a trip to Canada

[+popey]

I'm visiting Montreal and Quebec City for 10 days, and would like to do some caching. Can anyone help me with how to search for cahce's, especially around Quebec City, and is there anyway to translate from French to English.

[+flask]

we don't bother to translate. it comes out ok.

 

you could run it through a translator ahead of time, but there's no switch language feature here at Groundspeak.

[Cape Cod Cacher]

http://babelfish.altavista.com/ will translate

just write "Merci Beaucoup"

[+flask]

if you want to go native, folks up there are apt to write

 

RPRL- MPLC

 

which translates to TNLN- TFTC

 

most of the time they'd just as well have you write your log in english so you can write a proper interesting log.

 

i certainly welcome people from away to write logs on my caches in the language of their choice. i can get it translated later.

 

the only real impediment to foreign language caching is going to be your (or your translator's) failure to understand idiomatic phrases used to warn you of poison ivy and to tell you where to park. and hints.

 

lucky for you in many parts of quebec they speak english just fine and mostly don't mind doing so provided you're from the us. do not get yourself stranded at a tim horton's out in longueil; it will be a long time before your order comes out right.

 

i remember thinking: why, oh, WHY did i learn about literature and grammar when i should have been learning the names of the different kinds of doughnuts?

[+Juicepig]

Alot of caches, especially in tourist areas have the cache pages in both french and english - Only do the english ones, or try some simple french ones with a french dictionary if you need to use the hint.