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NEW TRAVEL PLANS

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After 8 years of stopping for health reasons, for the Covid pandemic, but also because I had lost the desire, I am thinking of starting to travel again and I am collecting information online on the following trips I would take between this year and next: - return after about 50 years to Florence, Rome and Naples - it will be a journey by train alone - tour in France of Normandy, Brittany and the Loire castles, also passing through Paris where I have been missing since 1979 - travel in Japan from Tokyo to Hiroshima alone by bus or train using the JRP or Japan Rail Pass which costs around 500 euros for 14 days and 650 for 21, expected cost around 2,500-3,000 euros of which 500 for the flight, 500 for insurance, 600 for accommodation in hostels, 600 for food, 300 for visits and miscellaneous alternatively I could join a group trip with Adventures in the World and take a three-week trip on the same Japanese itinerary but they add South Korea for an almost equal cost and I would prefer it

AFRICA TOP TEN large and medium sized cities, arcaeological sites, unique beauties

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I have only visited five countries in Africa: Egypt twice (once the archaeological sites from Giza to Aswan) and the other around Sharm el Sheik then six trips mainly seaside but with several excursions and one itinerant in Tunisia, one in Algiers and a nearby historic location and then with the plane I fly to Tamanrasset to go around the Hoggar Tassili in a 4x4 jeep, one itinerant as a couple along all of Morocco and a group trip through the national parks of Tanzania, climbing up to 3,000 meters of Kilimanjaro and final week-long holiday on Mafia Island. However, I have seen several documentaries about other countries and I think I know how to judge them a little Large cities: Cape Town, Marrakech, Fes, Rabat, Algiers, Tunis, Alexandria, Port Elizabeth, Malindi, Adis Ababa Medium cities; Hammamet, Tozeur, Sousse, Tangier, Dakar, Tabarka, Sidi Bou Said, Arusha, Sharm el Sheik, Archaeological sites and antiquities: Giza, Luxor, Aswan, Abu Simbel, Volubilis, Lalibela, Valley of the