Just finished a very common Portuguese lunch with olives, bbqed fish, salad, potatoes, and some creamy dessert.  I passed on the cafezinho which most Portuguese people take after their lunch.  I was talking with a colleague about how the Portuguese cafes are so similar all over the city.. how I can buy the same pastry or sandwich or bbqed sardine or bread or cup of coffee pretty much anywhere they serve breakfast or lunch.  Also, names are very uniform.  When I was invited along to play basketball at this tiny gym with the international slanted key every other person on my team was named João and the other two girls there were both Joana.  Well, as I learned today, here in Portugal there is a list of names and you pick one from the list for your kid.  There are no invented names.  The list of accepted names is here: http://www.rnpc.mj.pt/civil/NomesAdmit.pdf (also specified as male or female) and the names that were not admitted are here:http://www.rnpc.mj.pt/civil/NomesNaoAdmit.pdf.  This is how they preserve the Portuguese culture.