Now that the trip is done, here's a few interesting facts:

Final Itinerary

As you can see, we deviated from our original plan slightly.  We added two cities to the mix, Frankfurt and Geneva, which we are generally happy with.

Number Countries: 8 (France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Czech Republic, Italy, Spain, and Switzerland)

Number Cities: 15 (Besancon, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Berlin, Prague, Milan, Venice, Florence, Rome, Madrid, Barcelona, and Geneva)

Number miles 3740 (Europe only, assuming straight-line paths)

Number trains: 13 (Besancon-Paris, Paris-Brussels, Brussels-Amsterdam, Amsterdam-Frankfurt, Frankfurt-Hamburg, Hamburg-Berlin, Berlin-Prague, Milan-Venice, Venice-Florence, Florence-Rome, Madrid-Barcelona, Geneva-Besancon, Besancon-Paris).

Number planes: 3 (Prague - Milan Malpensa, Rome Ciampano - Madrid, Barcelona - Geneva)

Number Deviations: 2 (Cutting Amsterdam short to go to Frankfurt; Flying to Geneva from Barcelona)

Living Arrangements

Number Hostels: 9 (Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Berlin, Prague, Venice, Florence, Rome, Madrid)

Number Hotels: 6 (Besancon, Frankfurt, Milan, Barcelona, Geneva, Paris)

Number roommates: 30 (Paris x 8, Brussels x 0, Amsterdam x 2, Berlin x 4, Prague x 0, Venice x 5, Florence x 4+2, Rome x 3+2, Madrid x 0+2)

Good Hostels

You should be happy at these hostels.  We recommend them.

1. St. Christopher's (Paris)
2. Circus Berlin (Berlin)
3. Archi Rossi (Florence)
4. Albergue Juvenil (Madrid)

OK Hostels

You can fall asleep in these hostels, but they aren't anything special.

1. Hostel Jacques Brel (Brussels)
2. Ace Hostel (Prague)
3. Funny Place Hostel (Rome)

Bad Hostels

We'd recommend getting a hotel instead of going to these places.

1. Aroza Hostel (Amsterdam)
2. Stayokay (Amsterdam)
3. A Venice Fish (Venice)

Sightseeing

Number of steps we climbed: 3200 (Paris 700, Brussels 300, Amsterdam 0, Frankfurt 0, Hamburg 400, Berlin 400, Milan 0, Venice 0, Florence 400, Rome 700, Madrid 0, Barcelona 0, Geneva 300)

Number of churches we saw by name: 26 (Paris 2, Brussels 1, Amsterdam 1, Frankfurt 1, Hamburg 1, Berlin 4, Milan 1, Venice 1, Florence 1, Rome 10, Madrid 1, Barcelona 1, Geneva 1)

Downtime

Even with a jam-packed schedule, we still had hours to ourselves.  Whether it was on the train or late night before bed, we watched media on the laptop for relaxation.

Number of movies: 6 (PS I Love You, Charlie Wilson's War, Stripes, Hot Fuzz, SuperBad, Juno)

Sarah watched all but one disk of Gilmore Girls season 6.

Joe watched seasons 1 and 2 of the The Wire, and 4 episodes of MI-5 season 3.

Pictures

We took a few pictures on the trip.  Periodically (about every other day), we'd offload the pictures from our memory cards onto the computer.  Then about once a week we'd back up all the photos to the passport drive.  We used Live Photo Gallery and the nifty import tool to manage all the pictures.  We added tags from each city and each photographer so we could keep things straight.  Here are some nice stats:

Total Pictures: 6171 (17.5 GB, 4673 from Joe and 1477 from Sarah)

Here's a breakdown by city:

Blog

Thank you to those who faithfully followed along the travel blog.  This is likely the last post from us.  Here's some stats on the blog itself:

Number of posts: 33

Number of pictures: 250+ (including maps)

Number of visitors: 800 (times someone has come to read the blog)

Sincerely,

J+S