Any Geocachers?

I'm a geocacher and have found geocaches in 11 countries including Spain, Italy, France, Mexico, the Philippines and Monaco where English is not the primary language. Since many of the description pages are in English or have both English and the native languages, it hasn't been a problem. There are a couple right now that I'm preparing for in Greece that are totally in Greek, but you translate them before you go.
My most memorable experience geocaching in Europe was in Rome, Italy. The cache was in an island in the middle of the Tiber River and was under down below on a path under a large walking bridge and I was standing above looking at my GPS, when an Italian guy walked up looking at his GPS and we both knew exactly what both of us were doing. He didn't speak English very well and my rudimentary Italian was awful, but we managed to communicate with hand signals where the cache was and we both saw the steps down from the bridge to the cache. We both walked over to the steps when a security guard said in Italian that the steps were closed due to a music concert. My Italian geocacher spoke to him in Italian, pulled out his police badge and said we would only be a few minutes. He motioned to me to follow him and we went down under the bridge and found the geocache.
I am going on the RS scotland trip next month and will be geocaching during the trip. You have to plot out the cities and locations before hand and make a list of what's available near where you're going to be. I have also solved over 10 mystery puzzle caches in Edinburgh in advance, so I plan to walk the Royal mile and New Town finding those while sightseeing.
Unfortunately, because I am limited by the bus and where the tour goes, I can only get the ones in locations where we are nearby or are near the hotel we are staying in. Still I have a list of 60+ caches on my list.
Geocaching and traveling is what it's all about for me. Enjoy both on your trip.

Now that sounds like fun! Great post, derek.

Derek, I loved reading your post and your very memorable story! I haven’t booked my tour yet, but hope to get several different countries! I have noticed some do have both languages listed and some just the native language. I know that I will have to keep my lists small to not annoy my teens!

Although we have been caching since 2005, we are not real avid cachers. We do try to find at least one in every state, province, and country we visit. In two trips to Europe (both RS tours), we have found 26 caches in 6 countries. One of the most memorable was actually our first find in Europe, right outside the door of our hotel in Prague. It described the project to place a "Stumbling Stone" for every Jew killed in the Holocaust. Also in Prague, is the most found cache in the world. We also found the "Cache of the Week" at Aiguille du Midi near Chamonix, France.
I load a few caches in each town that we will be staying in before we leave, and maybe search for more when we have hotel wifi. Most are in multiple languages, or simple enough to not need translation.

Hi Derek,
I'm a geocacher and recently returned home from a RS trip in Southern England. Sadly, I lost my GPS near Battle Abbey. :-(
I was determined to not let it get me down and used my phone for the rest of the trip. I found caches in four new countries (for me) by the end of our vacation. There were certain caches could have posed a problem because of the text being in Dutch or French (in Belgium & France). The friend that we visited in Brussels speaks both languages, so no problem. We also visited Wales and when I found cache text in Welsh, I had a problem!
Take care and happy caching!

P.S. I bought a new GPS.

I gave up geocaching in the US after the day I came home and discovered I had three ticks attached to me under my shirt. (I had been crawling around in bushes trying to find caches.) It had been, for me, a great way to discover offbeat scenic spots in the woods that only the locals know.

I have read that Lyme disease is endemic in Europe too now, so I am none too keen on taking the hobby back up.