Lunch at the Embassy and "Sideways"

Saturday, the embassador and his wife invited us for a lunch at his official residence in Strandvägen, with a view over Nordiska museet and Djurgården. All the portuguese researchers, PhD and erasmus students living in Sthlm showed up and enjoyed a wonderful "feijoada" à la suède (beans with rice and meat with swedish ingredients) and "bacalhau com natas" (codfish with cream). The embassador knows we miss this kind of food here :-)

Interestingly, I found out that Portugal is now in 5th place of the red wine suppliers to Sweden and in 14th place in what concerns white wine, as a delegate from ICEP told me. But we need to increase the promotion and visibility of our wines here.

We also heard some funny stories on how brazilians look at portuguese from the embassador's own experience in Brazil. I will not reproduce them here...

All dressed up, we left to have dinner at KGB, a russian restaurant/bar/club, and then ended up at the inevitable "Hotellet".

By the way, I saw "Sideways" on the cinema, an entertaining parody to the middle-age crisis in both ends of the spectrum: a divorced, depressed guy meets his long-standing bachelor friend before his wedding, and they go on a wineyard excursion in California. Needless to say, they get in trouble in the most hilarious ways - but there is some message in the movie (if you focus on it, that is...:-)