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    Has anyone figured out how to load 500 Germany caches into a pda and have it be in English. that way when we get there we the have to stand around looking like a deer in the headlights

    #1894189
    Trekkin and Birdin
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      Not sure, but you might want to look up bottlyn’s profile and email them. They travel a lot, including to Germany, and find caches while there. Maybe they have found something? They own that Travel Bug cache over near Festival Foods, which I’m guessing you guys have found while caching over this way.

      Sounds like fun. I’m kicking myself that I didn’t look for caches when I was a world traveler, cause now I’m not! Have fun.

      #1894190

      Thanks I will see if I can find there profile and look them up
      we are going to cross into the Czech republic and Poland and there caches are in there language and in English both.

      #1894191
      Trekkin and Birdin
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        The Czech Republic is beautiful, from what a coworker told me. If bottlyn can’t help you, could you run the listings you want to find through one of the online translation sites, like babelfish? Sometimes they come out a bit weird, but probably not as weird as trying to read them in Czech!

        Good luck, hope you find the answers you need.

        #1894192

        I can do a few with igoogle translator that come out good but if I do a dozen PS and load up the gaps with 1499 caches
        that is where it would be nice if there was a way to translate them in bulk

        #1894193
        Trekkin and Birdin
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          I can see your point! Yowza! Again, good luck.

          #1894194

          I’ve geocached in Holland, Germany, Austria and Hungary. My technique was to download queries into GSAK on my laptop. Some geocache pages were in English: Germany is a big English speaking country. Some were in both languages, but most were in the native language.

          So, I just used GSAK to tell me the size, difficulty and terrain of the cache and went hunting. Just think like the hider.

          They REALLY are into puzzle caches and multi-caches there.

          I was able to make friends over there that actually helped me post some of my finds in German and English.

          Had a lot of fun geocaching there! Hope you do too!

          #1894195

          I have a German Sheperd that speaks German, but not English. He can’t read either language. 😆 O.K. Enough fun, I’m supposed to be at work.

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