There was a nice little puff-piece on the news about a Portuguese bakery opening up in Los Angeles. Visited by the likes of Nicole Kidman, Kevin Bacon and Ben Stiller, the reporter broke the news that pastels nata were taking Hollywood by storm.

But then our cousin pointed out that each pastel nata, which is a little custard tart in a puff pastry filling, contains 800 calories! Nearly as much as a Big Mac! At my present rate it would take me four hours in the gym to burn off one nata!

Taking the opportunity to sort out a few things in Portugal. There has been a lot of news over the last few months about the Crise in Portugal: How things have been getting worse, the recession beginning to bite, and of course increasing unemployment. It’ll be interesting to see how the Portuguese are reporting news of the protests in the UK against foreign workers (“British jobs for British workers”) and the effect of closures such as Mini production at Cowley, which has affected some Portuguese migrants.