Today was a weather day, it was either brollies up for the rain, coats on because there was a really cold wind or coats off because the sun was hot!

There were about 6000 teams (a team can be one person, two people or even a whole family) registered for this first ever geocaching Giga-event, which meant 10-12,000 people attending the main part of the event today. We had seen small groups of people looking at phones on the way home yesterday and thought something was happening. It wasn’t until we got back toe emails etc. that we realised they were looking for lab-caches. So first thing this morning we started on them ourselves. Basically you have to locate a specific spot and then answer a question. It could be a date or a word or a number. The first batch of 10 took us through the city squares, including the weekly fresh-food market….lots of yummy stuff. Once we had finished that lot we headed out to the Olympic Park for the main event. Helen had thought that we would be queuing for ages for registration, but that was really quick and easy. Then we had to descend down to the main floor of the stadium and queue for brunch, that took ages, LOL. We discovered Seal & her husband, whom we had met in Cologne last year, had a look at the stands, signed the table & benches being used as the event logbook, and then left the stadium to munzee hunt. Well around 12 hours later, 850 munzees (mostly vituals, manually capped), another 10 lab caches, an earth cache, a hill climb and a hamburger dinner, we were more than ready to come home for the evening.

There was a summer fair also going on around the Olympic venues, lots of rides, food, people and kids, so with the influx of all those geocachers, lots of activity and noise around the place. The weather doesn’t seem to bother people either really. Lots of sheltering under trees and dryish places, but everyone soon moves on as soon as the rain diminishes enough. Anyway time for bed, Prague tomorrow.