Are you a planner?
The very fact you're asking makes me thinks you're "a planner" like me and like Matt. We'll happily spend hours and days and weeks with maps and guidebooks poring over them, drawing routes, making notes, and having fun doing so. Other people on here simply hate that idea, for them it's all about the freedom of the open road, making it up as they go along.
So it's really up to you what you do. Either way though you'll probably want a good map, Michelin are excellent for Europe, and not too expensive, it's up to you whether you have it in book form or made up of huge sheets of paper, one's better for staring at on your floor one's better for reading en route.
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