[jyl]

Fun trip ahead!

I've been to Europe a lot -lived there for some years of my life, probably cumulative two years touristing around over the other years, last year spent around three months in France and Italy. It is my favorite place in the world. I wish I were living there now.

Some questions to start

1) What standard of accommodations do you two need, to be happy? Only nice hotels in nice areas, okay with the occasional grubby place by the train station, want to spread out in an AirBnB apartment, okay with a 12'x12' hotel room?
2) Do you want to see a lot of museums, monuments, and other stuff listed in guidebooks, have a list of very specific things you already know you want to see, or do you prefer to just poke around, hang in cafes, randomly run into interesting stuff some days or on other days nothing at all?
3) Thinking more of seeing cities or seeing villages?
4) Plan to travel by train, car, or plane? If rented car, how are you with driving in unfamiliar cities that are like, say, the most chaotic parts of NYC x 2?
5) In general, what's your tolerance for unforeseen and frustrating things going wrong and forced improvisation?
6) Are you thinking of this as your one trip to Europe ever, or more of a scouting trip to find places to go back to on future trips?