10 Horses. 75 seconds. 3 laps around Siena’s main piazza.

In this weekend’s travel pages: traveling in Japan, last-chance winter fun, and urban travel in a new crop of destinations.

Well, not a photo exactly. According to the Air Transport Association, this radar screenshot shows private jets scattering to the winds on Monday, after the tornado of gambling, price-gouging and sponsored after-parties that was the Super Bowl.

Large swathes of the populations of Chicago and Indianapolis will be on the move this weekend, along with scores of other Americans, traveling to Miami to watch the Bears face off agains the Colts in Super Bowl XLI.

Travel headlines for the weekend of 1/28/07.

Travel headlines for the weekend of 9/17/06.

There was a bumper crop of worthwhile features this weekend – including a special on Africa from the LA Times, and coverage of who’d-a-thunk-it destinations like Johannesburg and LA’s Valley – so I’ll cut the preamble and get down to business.

Those left unsatisfied by France’s loss in the World Cup final on Sunday can take some comfort in the fact that the Euro-sport focus is now fixed firmly on the Tour de France, which is basically a month-long picture postcard of the French countryside.