The European Trip Wish List, Version 2

I've removed and added a couple of items on my original European trip wish list.

• Attend a play at The Globe
• Visit the Guinness Storehouse in Dublin and, oh yeah, have a pint or two
• Attend a class/seminar at the International Space University
• Tour a couple of World War II battlefields
• Tour Versailles
• Tour the Louvre
• Visit some of Hemingway's favorite cafes
• Visit All Saints' Church in Wittenberg, Germany (birthplace of the Reformation)
• Have a few brews at Oktoberfest
• Visit Salzburg, famed both for Mozart and The Sound of Music
• Visit Prague (per my friend Cliff)
• Do wine tasting in a variety of nations/types of vineyard (Bordeaux, Piedmont, Alsace, etc.)
• Visit the French Riviera
• Tour the Vatican
• Tour Florence

I'm wondering if I shouldn't just set up a couple of base camps and do a week here, a week there, just to get things done with a minimum of fuss. For instance:

• 2 days in England (just to get that Shakespeare fix and maybe catch the British Museum)
• 2 days in Ireland--one day sightseeing/pub crawling, one day visiting Guinness and pub crawling
• 7 to 9 days in Strasbourg, France to cover my battlefield and Paris and Germany outings
• 1 day in Salzburg
• 1 day in Prague
• 3 days in southern France (Rhone Valley, the Riviera)
• 10 days in Tuscany (to cover Florence/Rome)

That kills about a month and theoretically gives me a little time at the end there to recover. This process will continue for some time. The big goal right now is to reduce the amount of driving I have to do, the number of hotels I have to use and vacate, and the amount of reservations I need to keep straight in my head. I sent an email out to my experienced-traveler family members and friends. No doubt I'll get a lot of contradictory advice, but such are the joys of diverse opinions.