IPhone in Europe/roaming/wifi

So as mentioned in an earlier post, I will be in Europe as of the end of this month for a three month + visit. If I actually needed an excuse to do so one of the main reasons for buying an iPhone was to use it over there, ( UK and France ), during that time. So I know from other posts that the iPhone does work in Europe but I thought I'd post a question again to see if there's any wrinkle/problems / or advice that I should pay attention to from other users recent experiences with using the 'phone. For instance is it better to rely on finding WiFi hotspots to retrieve and send email and is it easy to hook into open WiFi spots. Which services in the UK and France seem to work with iPhone/AT&T? Orange, Wanadoo?
I do have AT&T's international roaming plan, used it before with my Razr, presumably it'll work fine with the iPhone too, but because of the expense of using it I'd like to rely mostly on WiFi for email.
Thanks for any feedback.....Peter

Thanks for the responses to my question. But it has occurred to me that while you can turn off the WiFi connection option on the iPhone you cannot turn off the wireless network, the phone carrier's, send/receive option. So the iPhone will pull in whatever data is addressed to you regardless of whether you want it to or not. The only control over this would be turning the iPhone off unless you're in a known WiFi hotspot. This means that there's probably no way to escape the high charges/fees especially if you receive a lot of emails. I will not for instance expect to surf the web too much on the iPhone over there, but emails will come and go as per normal use here.
I don't text message at all, but will be relying on the iPhone for emails quite a lot when I am in Europe and away from my desktop Mac at my place there.
What by the way is : "....the 20 MB/month only if you sign up for a iPhone global data supplemental plan"....I've never heard of this yet? I have International Roaming, but this other plan I have not heard about.
Tried talking a couple of times to AT&T "customer support" by calling in and at their stores on all of this but they're all as dumb as a bag of hammers on most iPhone issues and questions. Just making it up as they go along and hoping that you'll go away.
I hope to be on broadband WiFi at my house a couple of weeks after arriving in France, so I will gladly update this discussion group at that time with my experiences.
Thanks again, very useful responses.....Peter

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