By Li

Earlier start than normal, down to breakfast for 8.30am. Breakfast wasn’t a bad selection, there was lovely fresh bread, bacon, eggs, beans, pickled herring, selection of ham and cheese. Kids even got to have hot chocolate with their breakfast.

Even though we got out on time, we followed the sat nav and ended up in the wrong place. Thankfully it wasn’t too much of a detour. After checking in for our glacier hike, we wasted a lot of time waiting for others who arrived late.

We got all geared up with harnesses, crampons and ice picks before setting off on a short bus ride to the foot of the glacier. It was a bit of a walk up to the glacier.

Once we got up, there was a lot more mincing waiting to get in to an ice cave. We finally got our turn and it was obvious where the cave entrance has collapsed, it was a bit of a tight squeeze getting in and no fun for tall people.

Inside the cave was small but really bizarre, natural light was coming in through the thick ice walls but inside the cave walls was melting as water built up on the floors. We squeezed through a very narrow corridor into another room. The ice was very blue inside.

After our close up encounters inside the cave, we embarked up the glacier. There was a loud crack where the glacier was shifting, a little scary but nothing to worry about. There is some serious deep crevices we had to walk around, apparently the glacier depth can be as much as 200m deep.

We also got to try drinking glacier water from a river coming down, strange way of drinking it – using a pick axe as a lever and doing a press up. Water tasted very cold and fresh though. Hi

For what we paid for, the ice cave extra was a complete rip off costing 45 minutes of lost time waiting around and £80. However, overall trip was an experience.

We got back to the hotel afterwards to dry off as it rained while we were out. We had some sandwiches and a cup a soup for lunch. Seeing as the weather is awful, we opted to stay out and chill out at the hotel. Not to mention less spending since the last 2 days have been quite extortionate which makes dinner at the Ritz look cheap.

Dinner was once again in the hotel, expectations were high given the quality of food last night and we weren’t disappointed

Li had chicken, William of course went for the lamb again as did I, and Rebecca opted for a chickpea curry.

So, back to my lamb, amazing just doesn’t do it justification; it’s shockingly good, the best I’ve ever had! Tender like you’d not believe, deliciously flavoursome and mind blowing taste. Top work to the chef!

By Tony