dude, listen. forget all that crap tourist stuff. get out there and take some small european towns by storm. make a mark. get to know the people! not what they charge for tours of their boring pop culture and crusty historic landmarks.
The attractions and landmark's are necessary to take in. There's time for both. Trust me, even the locals love the "touristy" stuff. The Londoner's I worked with were surprised that I knew more about London than they did & were envious that I did so much. They even wanted to do touristy things with me like go on a Jack the Ripper walk. There's plenty of time were I'm gonna just be putting up my feet in a pub next to the fire with quiet pint. But trust me.. even locals do things like go on a pub crawl tho. I think the things I picked out to do are necessary in getting to know the cities anyway.
My Video Cam came yesterday. I hafta try and learn this within a couple days. Not too difficult I hope.