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Le Joat Restaurant, Avignon, France; the meal(s) dreams are made of

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 October 2025 Taste heaven on earth on Le Joat ( https://lejoat.com/en/home/ ) Avignon France Amuse bouche: Cauliflower foam with purple cauliflower black sesame salt appetizer  with  Beef carpaccio with Comté cheese and citrus vinaigrette Carrot amd caraway tartlet Catch of the day, mackerel, celery and shellfish Poultry, Parsnip & Rin Jaune Pear and Caraxéx baba Chocolate Soufflé Tartlet Chocolate mousse bonus  John chose this excellent wine menu  Oh yes, the above photos are from one dinner for two! Couldn't resist and returned for lunch  Amuse bouche Cauliflower foam with purple cauliflower black sesame salt appetizer  Pumpkin velouté with chestnut foam Haddock beetroots Catch of the day, pollack,  citrus sabayon Quail stuffed with mushrooms, broccoli and port wine jus. Not a pretty photo however,  divine on your tongue & in your mouth.  Chocolate and ginger. This is the same name as dinner dessert and even better!  Dyna...
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Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), Cairo Egypt

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November 8, 2025 Grand Egyptia Museum opened in Cairo November 4, 2025. Overseas Adventure Tours/OAT worked hard to arrange tickets for our group because an unexpected number of Egyptians that are visiting made tickets hard to secure.  The original museum was closed 2002.  The $1 billion megaproject has been promoted as the world's largest museum dedicated to a single civilization, with nearly 50,000 artifacts. Beautiful exterior walkway Saturday November 8th  We got very lucky with our arrival time, that's John! No line at 11:30am Definitely excited that it's uncrowded and that there aren't  the 30K visitors that were here  yesterday  folks congregated in only a couple spots After entry, you ascend the grand staircase, or for us, the grand escalator  The Grand Staircase at the  Grand Egyptian Museum  (GEM) is 6500 square meters in area and stands  six stories tall, or approximately 50 meters high . It is a key vertical pathway and trans...
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Luxor Egypt: Karnak Temple and Valley of the Kings, Hot air balloon sunrise

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  October 29, 2025 Karnak Temples   Built and occupied between 2055BD-100AD were impressive, awe inspiring works of engineering precision. Loved the shade offered amongst the columns so hung out in them after walking to the back temples. It was hot, about 100, and uncrowded.  The Temple of Karnak was believed to be the spot where creation began. They also believed it was a point of interaction between the god Amun-Ra and Egyptians. It is important to Egypt's cultural history because it was a place of worship and provides clues about the ancient Egyptian religion.   A gap in tourists! Wasn't crowded, well planned by guide 4,000 yr old lake Rames  Karnak temple complex  Karnack temple column close up photo In Luxor, wee stayed at the fabulous, historical Sofitel Winter Palace Hotel  From our room at the Winter Palace we could glimpse the Nile as well as the Luxor Temple complex Winter Palace Hotel key costs $100 USD to replace and weighs so much you don'...
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