02+Cormeyeur+,+Val+d'Oste+Italy

=Treasures of the mountains on Mont Blanc != We traveled to Gardermoen at 6 a.m to get the flight to Milano at 09:35 and landed on sqedual at 12.00. The 218 km cartrip to Courmayeur, Valle D'Aosta was intereresting. It was 18"C and quite warm . We checked in at the hotel, and in the afternoon we went to our Italian partner's school and met the students .Italian TV RAI 3 and the local newspapers interviewed some of the participants and Svein Brede was interjuved on theRAI3 5 o'clock news.  We visited the Mayor of Courmayeur, Valle D'Aosta and got some information about the town and region. The teachers started their first meeting and the students guided on a tour of Courmayeur. We all met for dinner at 8:00 p.m on a local Pizzeria. During our stay we got to meet a lot of teachers and students and had to speak English all the time. We think is was very interesting and a good experience . Our English got better from day to day. Thursday we went to see the Miage glacier and placed a geocach (  []  ) and the day after we went to visit see the Mont Blanc glacier on top of Punta Heilbronn at 3500 m.s.l. We had a 2,5 hour walk on the glacier into France guided by the alpine guides from Safe Mountain foundation. We were informed about security, moving of the glacier and also the different minerals in the area. The pictures show our flight across the Alpes, our Hotel and also some of the Mountains in Courmayeur with the Mont Blanc massive and the cable car to Punta Heilbronn. Later in the week we visited the Ancient Roman City of Aosta which was taken by the Roman Emperor Augustus in 25 Ad. We saw a roman church, a gothic church and also a the best preserved Roman theatre in the world. We left early Friday morning to drove back to Milano and then home again. We had a great experience and learnt a lot about Italy and the mountains in Courmayeur. We also spoke a lot of English and see the importance of language learning. Svein Brede and me ( Kjetil ) would like to encourage other students to apply for place in the group going to the next meetings. You will not regret it.

cable car to Punta Helbronner (3,452 metres), guided visit to the crystals’ exhibition by geologist and alpine guide Mario Ravello, walk on the glacier accompanied by Courmayeur alpine guides Gianchini, Marra and Ravello, lunch at the Pavillion Refuge and planting of geo-cache number 2 (IT Mountain Treasure 2) near the Sussurea Alpine Botanic gardens.