Portugal vs Argentina

Well... there are more common points between Portugal and Argentina than one could think... The most obvious one is footbal... even though (amazingly) they seem to be here much more crazy than in Portugal. Football is a religion and there is a wide coverage of football issues on TV (even some football-only chains...). Let's see who'll get further in the World cup this year in Germany.

Another one is literature and poetry... the argentinian also have poetic-souls... and also... yes... tango! we have fado, but despite the fact that one does not dance the fado, it's also impregated by a similar nostalgia and sadness.

But that's not all... yet another similarity is that argentinians (well at least the bonaerenses) also seem to like croissant with ham & cheese for breakfast... did they copy us or was it the other way around?... well here they don't call it croissant but medialuna.

And there are other issues, like Colonia do Sacramemto, a portuguese trade point in Urugay just opposite BsAs and hoz it may have been decisive to the growth of the city, but I will come back to that at a later stage, if I manage to find a place in one of those overcrowded ferries crossing the river de la Plata...