Who is Pio?

"What you do for a living?" He countered.

Parent's gatherings is something new to me and will never cease to amaze me, I think. Our preschool-aged kids imagine that we adults know everything. I see us as kids, a little older, only pretending to know.

He was a tall, of balanced proportions, dad wearing a grey neck jumper and beige chinos appropriate for a work meeting, if it’s a tech startup, as well as for a casual chat about the kids. We were standing in the shade next to a swimming pool that came with a palm tree and a house he and his wife bought last winter. I was staring at his fully red trainers, trying, with no success, to decode their brand.

"Well, right now I work on my app, I'm a software developer, but generally I do many things," I said. "I used to work as a photographer, furniture maker, I like to create, you know." He frowned and his eyes went disengaged. Most adults, I met, expect to hear one job title in one industry.

"So you do everything and nothing," he reacted as if he announced today is a warm and sunny day while thinking about two upcoming board meetings and a few people to fire.

I smiled.

"Papa, look," she shouted. My four-year-old daughter was flying a purple aeroplane she never played with before.

Hi, my name is Piotr.

I write about people and take pictures of people.

I follow my curiosity.

I’m adventurer, but I’m none of my job titles.

I was born in Poland. After traveling mostly around Europe and living in big cities, I settled in rural Portugal.

This blog, while for some is about the everything and nothing, is about a journey of discovery that my curiosity fuels, and an excitement, when I realise it happened.