ICAME 2001 - Louvain-La-Neuve

This year's excursion took us to Bruges, a picturesque Belgian town not far away from the sea. The weather was pretty cold but at least it didn't rain - as you can see some of us were prepared - others forgot to bring their coats and felt much better when we got to the restaurant for dinner...

Robert Sigley on the coach to Bruges	Bas Aarts and Natalia Gvishiani	One of the 5 guides who took us around Bruges.	Fanny Meunier, Bas Aarts, Christopher Tribble, Chuck Meyer and Pam Peters	Uta Lenk during the tour around Bruges

Getting onto the boat - with Charles Fillmore in front	One of the three boats	View from the boat - this is the church where Michelangelo's Madonna can be found	Old houses on the waterfront
Gunnel Tottie on the boat	Sean Wallis on the boat	The Madonna by Michelangelo	In front of the town hall.

After the tour (and a break of one hour which was enough time for some to go looking for funnily shaped Belgian chocolate and for others to take up the quest for original Belgian beers) we all met again for dinner. Some male participants of the conference will have fond memories of the toilets there...

Josef Schmied and John Kirk	Anne Wichman, Patrick Studer and Nicholas Brownlees	Anna-Brita Stenström, Dieter Mindt, Natalia Gvishiani and Åke Viberg
Sean Wallis, Hajar Abdul Rahim, Christopher Tribble and Everita Milconoka	Roberta Facchinetti, Nick Smith and Paul Rayson	Paul Rayson

The gala dinner took place on Saturday at the Relais Mercure. First we had some pre-dinner drinks:

Morton Paley, Pam Peters, Uta Lenk, Gunnel Tottie and Graeme Kennedy	Michael Barlow, Chuck Meyer and Elena Tognini Bonelli	Chris Allen, Göran Kjellmer and Joe Trotta
Irma Tavitsainen, Roberta Facchinetti and John Kirk	Robert Sigley and Eric Atwell	Nick Smith and Paul Rayson
Geoffrey Sampson and Paul Thompson	Gaëtanelle Gilquin and Silvie de Cock	Fanny Meunier, Joybrato Mukherjee, Sebastian Hoffmann, Gaëtanelle Gilquin and Silvie De Cock

Caren Sanders talking (up) to Gunter Lorenz	Randall Jones and Lynell Chvala

Some pictures from the dinner:

Gunnel Tottie, Josef Schmied and Dieter Mindt	Knut Hofland, Maurizio Gotti and Irma Tavitsainen	Reiner Siemund, Arja Nurmi and Jürgen Esser	Matti Rissanen, Anna-Brita Stenström and Graeme Kennedy
Nicholas Brownlees, Patrick Studer and Kristina Schneider	Silviane Granger and Joe Trotta	Silviane Granger and the Spanish contingent	Noëlle Serpollet and Bernhard Kettemann
Roberta Facchinetti, Gunter Lorenz and Inge de Mönnink	Hans Martin Lehmann and Nelleke Oostdijk	Andreas Eriksson, Martti Mäkinen and Lene Nordrum.	Karin Aijmer, Stig Johansson and Goeran Kjellmer

After dinner, last year's organiser Pam Peters thanked Silviane Granger and her team on the part of all conference participants for a very well organised conference. Then, people were invited to try out the dance floor. Apparently, Silviane had suggested a list of music titles to the DJ - who was sure, after a brief look at the conference participants, that this selection wouldn't go down well with that kind of a crowd. Well, as you can see in the following pictures, he was quite wrong...

Pam Peters thanking the Louvain-La-Neuve team	Fanny Meunier and Knut Hofland breaking the ice	Roberta Facchinetti and Bengt Altenberg
The ICAME crowd definitely enjoying the music	Silviane Granger, Knut Hofland and Christopher Tribble	Bernhard Kettemann and Inge de Monnink

Some pictures from "the day after" - after my endless photo terrorism (as one person put it), someone insisted on taking a picture of me, too. So in the interest of fairplay, here it is ;-)

A very tired Sebastian Hoffmann	Roberta Facchinetti and Ilka Mindt during breakfast	Roberta Facchinetti - as some of you know she is my favourite photo victim, so I'm keeping up this tradition...	Inge de Monnink and Eric Atwell during the coffee break

Finally, after all the social events, here are some pictures from the auditorium where many of the presentations took place:

The main auditorium at the Relais Mercure	The members of the panel discussion at the end of the conference (Jan Aarts, Charles Fillmore, Graeme Kennedy, Christopher Tribble and Anne Wichmann)	Dieter Mindt talking about the compost of language and announcing his farewell to the ICAME community

I hope to see you all next year in Gothenburg!

Sebastian