We are planning a future trip to Europe. We are going to fly into major city Paris/Frankfurt and train to Berlin.

Then we want to drive around Germany/Austria for a couple weeks.

How hard will this be for an American not afraid of Chicago, LA, San Fran, DC traffic and only a little afraid of NYC.

We want to get into little towns and stop along the way.

Safe? Are GPS databases equally good as US? Parking (is that going to be a headache?

Any tips appreciated