At 16, I begged my dad to take me to the British Council in Lisbon, to find out how I could finish high school in London. For some weird reason, he played along. I am Portuguese, my whole family is Portuguese, and I had never been to the UK in…

As most Saturday mornings in the past year and a half, I sit down at my desk with a cup of coffee and a goal: write an article to share on Medium. As usual, before letting out some words, I let some in. …

At 21, I moved from my Portuguese hometown to Paris. In the 12 years that followed, I lived in 4 countries, quit a few jobs and relationships, changed careers completely, traveled full-time for some months, and created my own business.

Every time I start getting ideas about taking a new…

I wrote about codfish for 8 years.

I have been publishing personal content on Medium since 2018, and I write technical articles for work. Covering different areas and styles has taught me precious lessons on the art of writing.

These are the 10 tips I would give my best friend…

I am Portuguese but have been living in Hungary for 3 years now. I met dozens of new people here and every single one of them asked me the same question. Every. Single. Person.

So, why did you move here?

While I understand people might be genuinely interested in the…

Even the front door was impressive. I arrived at this guy’s house in the sunny south of Portugal and was greeted by the maid. Smiling, she let me in and took me to the back of the house, where he sat by the swimming pool with his wife.

I was…

He is painted on the walls of my apartment in shades of pearl and light blue. That was his job, to paint walls and do house fixes. But he will never fix another house or paint another wall because he died today.

Wall paint catalogs are liers. They appear before…

A few weeks ago, I visited Copenhagen, in Denmark. It was my first trip to a Northern European country, and it felt like entering a parallel universe. People are kind and respectful, everything is clean, the city is functional and well-integrated with nature, society seems to work properly.

Denmark is…