Initial Europe trip Ideas/Hints/Tips please!!

Still plenty of time for it all - and more.

For someone trying to save money you have picked some really expensive countries. Unless you have specific reasons for visiting places like Switzerland I would really suggest cutting them out to save money. If you want your money to go further head out to Eastern Europe, plenty of great things to see do out there and generally cheaper.

*11 has a good point about budgeting.... Eastern Europe is generally much cheaper all round for everything, from travel to a room - from food to eating out etc.
You can do certain countries in E.Europe for a week and it can cost you less than a day in some of the Western Europe Countries overall.

fish and houseguests stink after three days.
-old worldwide saying

clean up after yourself.
don't count on crashing with friends. its not their job.

i've heard bad reports by expats about that.

leave the door open for the next guy.

southern Europe is much cheaper.

This Texan lives in Spain. Its amazing how quickly the subject of Europe drops from the conversation, when friends back home find they can't use me.

@battybilly: Your post #10 is a redundancy of your post #6 but it doesn't give any arguments to support your point of view (as well as your post on #6 didn't provide them). It's your opinion and I respect it but it seems that you are only able to repeat it without being able of defend it with evidences/arguments. I would like to see you refuting my arguments and I would like to read your arguments to see if I can refute them...

To be fair it would be possible to "see" all those countries in that time frame. However it depends what you want to define "see" as. If you mean a few days in a single city in each country yes thats a pretty easy schedule to make. It's important to remember to most travellers France = Paris and the Eiffel tower, England = London and Big Ben and thats pretty much it. If by "see" you mean to visit a couple of places in each country to experience all that a country has to offer than no it's not enough time. It depends what the OP wants.

However, I would suggest that the OPs main problem is that he doesn't really know where he wants to go and has just put a number of countries down on paper without any real idea about what he wants to see and do or thinking about budgeting.

Rather than get off topic arguing about our opinions lets find out what the OP actually wants and try and help

james2020 said on #17: Rather than get off topic arguing about our opinions lets find out what the OP actually wants and try and help

I tried to help the OP on my post #2. I suggested him/her to cut his/her list of countries, to make an itinerary (list) of cities/towns/places that s/he wants to see in those countries (so we can help him/her better) and to tell us what are his/her interests because, otherwise, we can't suggest him/her any must see. BTW, the OP thanked on #5 all the previous posts and that includes my post on #2.
The OP came back once but s/he didn't make any of these things (take a look at his/her post #5). If he tells us any of these things, I'll try to help him/her again. But, at the moment, I'm not able to provide him/her any other advice. Well, I could say that some of the countries in his/her list are very expensive and that it would be cheaper to include some countries in Eastern Europe but that has been already pointed out by other users. (BTW the OP hasn't made any comments about this suggestion either). However, the OP has two different opinions about his/her list of countries. I said him/her that those are too much countries given his/her time and I provided some arguments. battybilly has said that they aren't too much countries and that the OP can add more to the list but I think that s/he hasn't provided any arguments. I think that it would be easier to the OP to take its own decissions (regarding the number of countries in his/her list) if everybody gives arguments to support their comments (because s/he'll probably find some comments more convincent that others) and that's why I asked battybilly to provide them. I don't want to argue with battybilly; as I said in one of my posts on this topic, I respect his/her personal opinion. I only want that the OP has as many arguments as possible in order to take his/her own decissions.

does op know what he/she/it want to gain from the travel?