Supposed to wake up at 6:00 am to go hiking in the High Tatras (?) but it is raining and now we are going ice-caving. We had a very good breakfast which consisted of - guess what? Bread and we were given lunch which consisted of - yes again - Bread. Drove for about 30 minutes and came to a bank - got told off by my best friend Chris Hillier for standing up - git! Took a lovely photo of the bank (Banka in Slovak) and then explained to Martin that a banker works in a British bank and what the similarity between that and Spud was. Me and Oliver Barnes have discovered that the national dress in Slovakia is shell-suits because everywhere you look there are people in bright turquoise shell suits but saying that, Oliver is wearing some shell-suit bottoms.

On coach looking at the countryside, mostly hills and fields. Everyone got given 450 Slovakian Crowns, which is £9.77 in English. We went to an ice cave - it was rather cold but very spectacular. We had to pay to take the camera in and because I had the camera I had to wear this bright green sticker which meant that I was the only Scout allowed to take photographs. I had to take photos for the other Scouts & I took at least 200 photos and I missed all the commentary about the caves because I never stopped!. The ice caves were quite spectacular and there are only 8 ice caves in the World. Then we went to what Martin said was a Castle. I think everyone was expecting some old ruins or a Castle with a drawbridge but it was some posh stately home where Napoleon once slept. It was very interesting on the bottom floor because there were interesting things like life-size bears and real human skulls but on the top floor it did get rather boring after the 10,000 pictures or portraits were explained but on the whole a very interesting day.

In the evening we played volleyball and my team lost 7 - 1 and 7 - 0, so we were rather rubbish but Neil (bus driver) insisted that the other teams cheated and there were too many people in each team. I personally just think that our team were just rubbish and that Neil’s a bad loser!