The Ramsar Photo Gallery

Significant events in the life of the Ramsar Bureau - The Catalan evening, April 2001

In their neverending pursuit of cultural diversity, the Ramsar Bureau staff and collaborators do Catalan cuisine, 28 April 2001 (Scots and Belgian are in the project development phase for the coming months)

On the left: the hostess, Paulette Kennedy, who welcomed everyone to her house in Signy, partially to get preferential Catalan helpings and partially to celebrate her husband Keith's completion of his PhD.

The chef, Montserrat Riera, from the Catalan region of Spain. Nick Davidson and Linda Bridge observing.

Crowd scene (featuring, among many other still untold stories, Montse's husband Fran at 3.3 meters tall, a dog who is not on the Ramsar payroll, a full kit of Pakistani national costume, and visitor Gordana Beltram from Slovenia)

Another crowd scene (same crowd) (many of the same untold stories)

The chef prepares to call in the crowd and dash to safety before they hit the table in a cresting wave.

This is only some of it.

Lamberts chowing down.

The Deputy Secretary General back at the strawberry trough.

Mireille Katz with still another Lambert.

Ramsar interns, 2001 edition.

Marco Flores, Tug Sirisampan, Inga Racinska, Simon Rafanomezantsoa

For further information, please contact the Ramsar Convention Bureau, Rue Mauverney 28, CH-1196 Gland, Switzerland (tel +41 22 999 0170, fax +41 22 999 0169, e-mail ramsar@ramsar.org). Photos by Keith Kennedy. Posted 2 May 2001, Dwight Peck, Ramsar.