We’ve only walked up until today, because busses are very, very uncommon in Ferrara. I was quite surprised by that but could understand why they did it. I mean, the city isn’t too big. Everything is within walking distance. Still, walking to the center of the city each time (+- 3 kilometers) isn’t much fun and going back and forth to the university and hospital would be a pain in the ass as well.

By now, everyone has arrived and they all had to register and sign the contract for the apartments as well…As you could have guessed, it took sooo long. I’ll be saying this a lot, but man, the Italians are slowpokes.

Once everyone had signed and freshened up, we all went to the central station together to rent a bike. The owner did not speak English and pretty much tried to rip us off with €100,- for six weeks (previous med students hired a bike for €60,- for three months). Obviously, we would explore other options and the one rent a bike store advised was near the cathedral. To our surprise, the owner spoke English very well and the process of renting our bikes luckily went easy peasy.

Having our bikes gave us enormous freedom. It was great to go from A to B within a few moments. Definitely worth it and pretty much mandatory.