Pre-Trip Post (In Which My Itinerary Is Revealed In Case I Get Kidnapped By Radical Anti-European Protesters)

If you're reading this, then you know that I'm spending the next month touring Europe before coming home to have a real adult job and live in a house that can only be described as the fantasy we all had as juniors and seniors in high school. If you're still reading this, then you actually sort of care about this, and want to keep up with the places I'm going, things I'm doing, art I'm seeing, and beers I'm drinking. For those of you who want to follow me, my itinerary is as follows.

• MAY 28-JUNE 2: Fly to London with mom. British Museum, Tate, Shakespeare at the Globe, musical in the West End, Bars & Boris Bikes, and probably some other stuff
• JUNE 3: Travel to Paris via Eurostar, buy EURail pass.
• JUNE 4-8: Paris. Versailles, Louvre, Orsay, Pompidou, Orangerie, Catacombs.
• JUNE 9: Mom goes back to America, I go to Bruges.
• JUNE 10: Bruges. Sightseeing, and a thorough taste testing of Belgian beers.
• JUNE 11: Travel to Berlin.
• JUNE 12-14: Berlin. Reichstag and Bundesmuseum and Kurfurstendamm. More beer tasting.
• JUNE 15: Travel to Prague
• JUNE 16-17: Prague. Old Town, Jewish Quarter, whatever else the hostel staff says is cool. Still more beer tasting.
• JUNE 18: Travel to Munich.
• JUNE 19-20: Munich. Englischergarten, more drooling at architecture. Also, my hostel is next to the Hofbrauhaus. I'll also probably do a post on what it's like to watch the US play in the World Cup in hostile territory.
• JUNE 21: Travel to... almost Venice. Hostels in the lagoon are for people who have been working as engineers for a year or so ($$$).
• JUNE 22-23: Venice. Sightseeing, running on rooftops, assassinating various members of the Borgia family, communicating with my future descendant about something involving a solar flare. Also the glassworks at Murano if I can help it.
• JUNE 24: Travel to Naples. Eat a pizza.
• JUNE 25: Pompeii. Pour out a little Chianti for Caecilius and Grumio. Recall all those days in Mr. Voigt's Latin class and chug rest of Chianti.
• JUNE 26: Travel to Rome.
• JUNE 27-30: Rome. Roman Ruin complex, Vatican City, more museums.
• JULY 1: Fly home.

That's a brief summary of what I'll be up to this next month.