UK visitor to Prague 26 - 29 July

We are G Force, a husband and wife team from the UK who are planning on visiting Prague 26 - 29 July. We are planning on coming as tourists but plan on getting as many caches as possible while there (with over 100 within 5 miles from GCRQY3 the closest cache to the hotel) and looking forward to it. We hope to hire some bikes during our stay so we can get around quicker.

Unfortunately we do not speak or read Czech so some cache pages we do not understand although I have found

some caches in Germany, France & Switzerland without translations (thinking like a geocacher). Is there any

web site for free translations?

Any help, tips, advice or suggested routes to take while we are in the city to make the most of our visit would be

most welcome.

Thanks

Hi, at http://www.slovnik.cz/ is a free online vocabulary - it does not translate the blocks, but I think it can be useful to you. Enjoy your stay :slight_smile: btw if you will register yourselves at this web page under your gc nick and with use of your password at gc.com, you will be able to see the informations about the caches, maps, etc.

Thanks for that and am sure we will be using it.
děkuji

Hi

Please post URLs to any caches you don’t understand and we make a short translation for you and e-mail it to the cache owners to include it in the cache listing as well

Prague is old town and is situated on lot of hills. Here is not bicycling tradition as in towns situated at flat area. In short, centre of Prague is not bike-friendly at all due to lack of bicycle ways on side-walks and heavy traffic at narrow streets. There are some bicycle ways, but usually just in the side parts of the town. Biking for regular traveling without local knowledge is not so safe as some people used to do. Bikers are called blackly as “organ donors”. Wish You a happy geocaching anyway :-).

That would be most helpful. Starting from the closest to the hotel.
GCQJ4T - Mystery cache (do you need local knowledge to work it out?)
GCWA2Y - currently temporarily unavailable
GCRH4J - currently temporarily unavailable
GCWH1A - traditonal
GCRXGF - Mystery cache (do you need local knowledge to work it out?)
GCV4K1 - Mystery cache (do you need local knowledge to work it out?)
GCV1A9 - Traditional although the clue is in English
GCRMPT - Mystery cache, currently temporarily unavailable
GCWFEH - Traditional
GCQH4G - Traditional
GCWJJH - Traditional
GCV8QA - Traditional (English hint)
GCRHJD - Multi (English hint but need to get stges first)
GCW7VN - Traditional (English hint)
GCV5Y7 - Multi
GCWGZW - Mystery cache (do you need local knowledge to work it out?)
GCV8C2 - Traditional although the clue is in English
GCW83J - Mystery cache (do you need local knowledge to work it out?)
That is roughly all caches within 1.5 mile from the hotel that I think would be possible to grab but please let me know if any require more work (local knowlwdge) or the final cache is located well away from the city center. Any further suggestions on caching in Prague will be gratefully accepted.

Thank you for the feedback and looks like we’ll change our plans on getting around the city and look at the tram routes.

GCQJ4T - Mystery cache (do you need local knowledge to work it out?)

The description is a history of Czech postal services. The only important part is

the two-line formula at the bottom:

I haven’t found this one myself but I suspect the author to use Czech ZIP codes (PSC).

If so, here’s the link for you: www.cpost.cz → postcodes

hint - let me know if you really want the hints in plaintext

GCWH1A - traditonal

This cache will lead you to the smallest house in Prague.

GCRXGF - Mystery cache (do you need local knowledge to work it out?)

This cache visits the places where the well-known Czech adventure book takes place.

I am not going into the plot of the book here but I recommend visiting at least first

stage - it has great atmosphere and is off the beaten track.

But I am afraid it will take lot of time - others may confirm?

  1. under the street sign “Rasnovka I” there are two numbers, blue A, red B

  2. above the street sign “Liliova” there is a pointer to the importat tourist sight.

    C is the year when its construction started

  3. here you find a puzzle (the most important item of the book), solve it and find the

    final coordinates inside.

  4. be careful while retrieving the cache, don’t apply too much force.

    return it exactly as it was.

GCV4K1 - Mystery cache (do you need local knowledge to work it out?)

self-describing. one of the first places in Prague where graffitti is legal

GCV1A9 - Traditional although the clue is in English

The site of the first Prague (land) funicular leading to Letna built in 1891.

Though it’s history was short-lived

it is an important technical achievement. You can see the last signs of the funicular at

N 50° 05.746 E 014° 25.518. The cache is not at these coords but a bit lower (because of the

nearest-cache-distance rule) but you can still have a nice view of the Old Town and

Anezsky monastery.

GCWFEH - Traditional GCQH4G - Traditional

The Museum of Agriculture 1891

The description consists of:

History, today’s status, opening hours (everyday 9-17, closed on Monday)

Admission (50 adults, 30 children, 120 families)

On display - history of food industry, tools of trade

Public transportation - take metro A line “Hradcanska” or C line “Vltavska”,

then change to tram nr. 1, 8, 25, 26 to “Letenske namesti”

Current events

Some “Prague for tourists” bookmark, created by any of premium members, would probably help to answer this kind of inquiries… As it is in Bratislava :wink:

Riki, nerozumiem, ale tusim. Rozmyslam nad zoznamom cachi, ktore su pri hlavnych pamiatkach alebo s vyhladmi na Prahu. PM nieco takeho umoznuje? A ved vlastne to sa da dat do profilu alebo na vlastny web…

Nad tym zoznamom rozmyslam preto, lebo tito manici sa ocividne rozhoduju kam ist podla toho, co je blizko k ich hotelu a to je snad blbost…

Ano, tusis spravne. PM si moze vytvorit lubovolne zoznamy kesi (tri druhy: 1. len pre seba, 2. zdielane, 3. verejne - odkaz na zoznam sa zobrazi priamo v listingu geocache - vpravo pod menu - “bookmarks”).

Uz teraz mozes na tieto zoznamy kde-tu natrafit - vacsinou si ludia vytvaraju FTF listy, videl som odkaz na zoznam Drive-in skrys… Celkom sikovne by teda bolo, keby niekto vytvoril zoznam prazskych skrys pre turistov. Ku kazdej polozke v zozname sa da pridat kratky komentar.

Napriklad Igiho bratislavsku <a href=“http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=4b5694e8-c9ce-412a-a0f3-9a91c62fc363"target="_blank”>View from castle som zaradil do zoznamu “Bratislava for tourists”, dufam, ze to niekto vyuzije. Tieto bookmarky/zoznamy sa daju aj hodnotit, nakolko su uzitocne. Prezerat si ich mozu aj BM, samozrejme.

Hej, chlapi, timto je tedy vytvarim - budou verejne, takze do nich bude moci kazdy “hrabat”. Snad to bude fungovat.
EDIT: “oznackoval” jsem Pitruv Vaclavak, pridavejte prosim dalsi kesky podle Vaseho uvazeni do seznamu tohoto bookmarku. Keska by mela byt pekkne udelana, spolehliva a s EN listingem.

Jestli se nepletu, tak to že je bookmark list veřejný neznamená, že ho může kdokoliv upravovat (naštěstí) - vkládat další cache může jen majitel bookmark listu.

…a muzes to vyzkouset, prosim ? Treba pres virtualni kesku Prague, Stare Mesto. Diky.

Je to skutecne tak. Editovat ho muze pouze owner.

Njn, tak kdyz nekdo bude mit tip, tak mi musi napsat a je to tam pridam…

Maty, pozri naozaj k Rikitanovi:

http://www.geocaching.com/bookmarks/view.aspx?guid=5cc7bf29-5cc2-4d0b-bc58-8392380319d5

mozes tam pridat aj par slov k tomu kde to je alebo cim to je zaujimave.

Hi

Maty started a cache-list with his recommendations of caches to visit while in Prague. I think this is a more reasonable approach than choosing caches depending on their distance from your hotel :slight_smile:

http://www.geocaching.com/bookmarks/view.aspx?guid=1c1a64b6-959d-4718-9a9a-1c54bc91928b

btw. I’ll finish the translation of the requested caches later this week.

GCVNTM Prague Tribute

GCTHJR Mullerova vila

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