dude, i'm so glad you are going to portugal. i'll probably be going for a week sometime in the summer. I am portugese...and live about two hours south of oporto. Beautiful country, and Lisbon is sort of americanised. but i would spend more time in the small vilages, appriciating the beauty of the courty and the woman. we have beautiful woman. the the spanish beef thing isn't that big...it comes down to mostly soccer stuff...oh and spain occupied portugal a few hundred years ago. Prince Filip the first, second and third were the kings at the time.