Nervous, I pack my bags for my first ever global smartphone-enhanced journey through Europe

Checking my bag tonight before heading out to Frankfurt, Germany tomorrow, I see that I have all that I think I need, but I am sure I will come up with something. The list:

Hand sanitizer
Folding toothbrush
Dr. Bronners liquid soap
Sleeping bag
Novel
Blackberry 8830
Flip Mino portable video recorder
Clothes, including puffy socks because I think it will be cold in Latvia

My journey will take me from Germany in the morning of the 18th of December, to the locks and dams of Amsterdam. Then I will move on to Brussels, then Paris, then Strasbourg, Munich, Berlin and finally to Latvia in Eastern Europe.

The Test: To write blog posts from my Blackberry in every city, and to take video of technologically adept people in Europe, interviewing them about their mobile lifestyles. And I want to do this without huge roaming fees.

As things stand, I don’t think that I will have to worry. I have a global email and texting plan, as well as a global calling card. I am sure that things will stay within reason.

What I don’t want to have happen is to find that the 8830 does not actually communicate well with other signals and frequencies, and that I am all alone out there on the great Euro-plains without any way to communicate with the Charged audience.

Send your suggestions of where I should go in Euroland to find great tech wizardry and gadgets, or to find good stories or people to interview. I will look forward to it.