Design and build homepage for cool city guide website

http://www.TheCityMole.com

We're two 20 somethings who are developing a unique website that will provide travel information through quality reviews by talented, young writers that know their home city.

As young travellers, we noticed a distinct lack of websites that provide quality information for young people. This website aims to show young people the best of European Cities, and not the useless, out of date information that’s currently available on the web. We aim to provide the inside word on cities for young travellers so they know exactly where to go out and have a good time.

The target audience is 18-26 year olds.
The primary target is creative individuals who enjoy writing and travelling who will provide reviews for the website. Obviously the focus of the site once live will be 18-26 world travellers looking to gain information on European Cities. For this reason we require the website to have a youthful sharp look which will appeal to young people.

Designers are given a great deal of flexibility when it comes to designing the layout of the homepage.

The logo is already designed and attached. Therefore the page needs to be based around this.
Following the logo will be a blurb (attached). This briefly explains the site and asking for participants for our site. The blurb is quite short and to the point therefore we'd like to see a design next to or near the blurb encompassing some European landmarks.

Following the blurb and design we'd like a map of Europe created with each city reviewed (list is attached) 'dotted' throughout with the name of the city in text when hovered over. Also we were thinking having the list of cities in list format just underneath the map.