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When we arrived in Budapest for our Erasmus experience, we were excited but also a little nervous. We knew that spending one month in another country would be different, but we didn’t expect to learn so much from this experience. Now that our month here is almost finished, we can say that Budapest has left us with many memories, new friendships and a different way of looking at things. The things that surprised us One of the things that surprised us the most is how international Budapest is. During our stay, we met people from many different countries and had the opportunity to communicate in English every day. At first, speaking English all the time was a little difficult, but after a few weeks we became much more confident. We understood that you don’t have to speak perfectly to communicate with someone. We were also surprised by how beautiful Budapest…

When you move from a tight-knit Italian town like Jesi to a sweeping European capital like Budapest, the shift in lifestyle hits you fast. But it’s not just the language or the architecture that changes your daily routine—it’s how you move. In Jesi, the private car is the most used way of transport; without a steering wheel, you are practically stranded. In Budapest, however, owning a car is almost an inconvenience. Here, the city doesn’t belong to the automobile, but to an interconnected web of punctual trams and buses that seamlessly tie the metropolis together. The Scale of Infrastructure: Why Size Dictates the Strategy The root of this massive divergence in transportation habits comes down to the sheer geographic and demographic scale of each location.Jesi is a compact historical town in Italy’s Marche region, that has roughly 40,000 inhabitants. Because the distance from the medieval historic centre to the newer…