I strongly urge you not to travel often on the weekend in the beginning. Most people will not, however, heed my advice. Most people will read this and think, I’m in Europe—shouldn’t I always travel?!
Yes, but no.
Turin, as has been said many times, is your home. Be here, and then you can go other places. Get to know your apartment, then the closest café, the closest restaurant, your favorite aperitivo nearby, then your favorite major piazza, your favorite spot in Parco Valentino, your favorite place near the city center, your favorite gelateria (it ought to be Siculo), and after you’ve done all these things, you can take a vacation.
It’s true that not many people study abroad. But if we take that amount of people and examine what they normally do, we’d probably see that many—especially many that have chosen Turin—have traveled nearly every weekend. That’s the typical experience.
What’s not typical is taking the time, the effort to get to know a town well. And Turin is worthy of getting to know. Don’t feel the need to take every trip on every weekend. Don’t let someone con you into taking a trip because they insist anything that sounds like traveling is better than staying in Turin.
Turin Turin Turin. Get it into your head.
But now, let’s travel out of town.
Still, though, we’re not going far.
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