Eurotrip?

One of the big questions one faces while studying abroad is how much to travel. Especially in a location like Europe, where there's so many amazing cities and historical sites, it can prove to be a difficult response. My mentality so far is that I have two long, two-week breaks where I'm going to revisit Morocco, go to Spain and Portugal, and possibly go to Poland or Tunisia. The weekends in between, however, are pretty much set aside for France. While I have some friends who've already been to Munich, Amsterdam, Switzerland, or even the Olympics in Turin, I've been holding back. I feel like this opportunity to live in Paris is too unique to spend the majority of it outside of the country. On the weekends, when I finally have a break from all five of my courses, I can do museums, longer walks, take day trips out to places like Chartres, Vaux-le-Vicomte, Chantilly, Versailles, or any number of places that dot the landscape around Paris. Plus, I get a better taste of the Paris nightlife - I'm more apt to go out to Oberkampf and check out the bar scene on a saturday than a wednesday, or to go out to a concert such as the one my host brother is playing in this Sunday night.

Europe is one of these amazing places that's going to be here when I'm 30, 40, and 50. And hopefully, I'll be making many return trips if I have any say in the matter (and finances permitting, of course). Next weekend, I will be heading up to Bruges, in Belgium with some French family friends, and I'm definitely looking forward to it. I just know that while I'm here, I should be as close to "here" as possible.

Of course, if anyone has any suggestions or thinks I'm completely crazy to squander my time in France without doing a gigantic Eurotrip, feel free to let me know - I changed the comments so that now anyone can post, not just those with a blogger ID. Keep in mind I've done the England, Italy, and Czech Republic thing. Also, I'm always down for reccomendations on where to go to over break, etc, as long as it's on a somewhat reasonably budget (ie: hostels, cheap flights, etc). Of course, I, like anybody, might have the tendency to splurge every now and then if something's really worth it.