A tale of our adventure, and advice if you’re planning on doing the same — “I can’t do this anymore! I’m leaving the bike here!”, my friend shouted, her feet stuck in the mud, the bike tires covered in a brown paste that made each kilometer a suffered accomplishment. It was the second day of our Budapest to Vienna bike trip and nothing was going…

In 3 hours you’ll learn everything I learned in 3 years — Are you new to writing on Medium? Or have you been around for a while but are still struggling to achieve the results you want? You came to the right place. On June 24th, I will be hosting a live course “Writing on Medium: Fast Track Your Way to Success”…

Some clichés are très real. — Don’t ask me how long I lived in France. Putting it simply, I don’t know. I lived between Paris and Portugal for a few years, and can’t really add up all the little periods of time. But I lived in Paris long enough to understand how life unfolds in the…

It happens in Hungary at Easter time — “Be careful this weekend, guys might want to sprinkle you”. “Excuse me?!” — I asked my friend, baffled. “Yeah, so you can grow, as if you were a flower”. *Confused face* This conversation happened during my first year living in Hungary, as we were approaching Easter. …

Let’s Stop This — I’ll admit it: I have gaps on my CV that I covered up. 9 months after I quit my first job and tried to create something on my own. The first 5 months after I moved to the UK and worked in hospitality. …

From someone who lived on both sides — I’m Portuguese but lived in Budapest, Hungary for 3.5 years. One day, I went to the beautician to get waxed. I’m talking about parts of my body I don’t want to display to the world. Once I arrived, the beautician told me, in her broken English, to lie on the…

Ruuuuuuuuun! — A couple of years ago, a recently launched news website was trying to attract writers to the platform by paying them good money to publish there. At this point, I had been writing on Medium for a while and had created 100+ articles. So I did what every other creator…

A list put together by a local — Budapest is in the top 3 best European cities where to party. Just ask the countless bachelors bringing all their friends over from London for a wild weekend. Or the Erasmus students going crazy on a regular Monday night. Or basically, any young people living in Budapest. The reason: lots…

And everything you need to plan your trip — I visited Budapest in the summer of 2018 and I fell in love with the city so much that a few months later, I moved there. If you’re afraid the same might happen to you, read no further. But if you’re the adventurous type, welcome! You’re in for a treat. …