Day 1: Arrive in London. Get a taxi to your hotel. Have a snooze and a nice cup of tea. Go out to the pub, work the accent and chat to the locals like so.
Day 2: Go to the Science Museum. Try to keep your kid-like enthusiasm/Sheldon-like derision under control.
Day 3: Stare at shiny rocks for as long as you can. Or alternatively, take this excellent free walking tour (you get to use an app!) and scavenger hunt, London Science Uncovered.
Day 4: Get the train to Paris. Explain to fellow passengers (whether they ask or not) how the train goes underwater. If you have time when you get there, go hang out on campus at UPMC.
Day 5: Go to the Cité des sciences , and fly through space. Wheeeee! ^_^ It's the biggest science museum in all of Europe. At night, crash a party for one of the constant streams of symposiums on neat stuff like particle physics: google for more info.
Day 6: More trains, this time to Geneva in Switzerland! The travel time is only three hours, so if you leave early enough, you can make it in time to take a tour of the CERN.
Day 7: Come back the next day and check out the exhibitions as well. At night, if you're there at the right time of the month check out the astrophysics observation parties at the Geneva Observatory.
Day 8: Now for a change from the big cities, travel by plane to Kangerlussuaq in Greenland (via Copenhagen), with Air Greenland (average fares are $550 return), the best place to see the Northern Lights. Or alternatively, you could go to Jukkasjärvi in far north Sweden; it's slightly cheaper to go there as budget airlines compete on this route (you'll need to connect in Oslo or Copenhagen, and then catch a bus from Kiruna airport). Plus, in Jukkasjärvi you can stay at the epic Ice Hotel, and party at its vodka bar and stuff. There's only one connection to get back from Kiruna to London, where you can get your returning flight home.
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