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Re: Egyptian Museum in Cairo (EMC) website
That GEM it's a FIASCO!!! By the time it opens.... we're all going to be mommies 
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I'm glad I went... not waiting for a museun.. life it's to short. I'll watch it on Netfix.
mil
Re: Egyptian Museum in Cairo (EMC) website
Speaking of the GEM,
Wrong GEMs? Notice the gem for April. My wife never lets me forget that her birthday is in April!! 
Happy Thanksgiving to all!
Smiling Sam
Egyptian Museum in Cairo (EMC) website
Egypt recently launched a new website for the (old) Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square. One section has five pages of photos of the displays. https://www.egyptianmuseumcairo.com/egyptian-museum-cairo/
There is nothing new on the private https://grandegyptianmuseum.org/ or official government http://gem.gov.eg/index/Project_overview.htm GEM websites.
On a negative note- the opening is still just rumor, but more and more rumors indicate the GEM won't open until Nov 2022 (as I speculated over a year ago 
), however, they continue to move stuff to the GEM. I wonder what will be left there in the months leading up to the opening of the GEM.
AlanS
Mandatory Traffic control card
One of the required documents for Galapagos is listed as “mandatory traffic control card”.Is this something we have to get before we leave the airport in Guayaquil ?
sudhamali
Re: Egyptian Museum in Cairo (EMC) website
The following captures AlanS researching meerkats and scorpions while floating in the Dead Sea (assuming he doesn't back out because the water is too cold. ). He just can't stop researching.
Smiling Sam
Re: CHRISTMAS MARKETS
Dresden Markets are now cancelled. Munich was cancelled initially, but by early 11/20 all markets in Bavaria are now cancelled. Austria will go into a full lockdown on Novembers 22 for ten days, but it is likely it will be extended to December 12.
GAA0805
How to spot an American tourist - amusing article
https://www.buzzfeed.com/hannahloewentheil/weird-things-american-tourists-do
I alughed at the "wearing shorts when it's cold." That's defintiely true here in Colorado. people wear shorts when it's in the 30s or 40s, but in all fairness, when the sun is shining, it feels warm because the sun is so strong in our high altitude and dry air.
Now conversely, how to spot a Euro tourist:
1. backpack style
2. colored socks with white sneakers
3. jeans style
BKMD
Re: Egyptian Museum in Cairo (EMC) website
AlanS
I wonder what will be left there in the months leading up to the opening of the GEM.
The killer scorpion display!
Smiling Sam
Re: Rain in Aswan
Wow! I was supposed to leave for Egypt on March 12th 2020 and have wondered when happened to those who were on tour then. Closing of the worlds airports was bad enough, but to add a flood to your experience must have been surreal.
franlovestravel