In Portugal we love coffee (dearly); we like it so much that it can be served in a multitude of different formats and concentrations, sweet or bitter and in whatever temperatures you might desire!
I’m currently working on a Surf-Bar and there my costumers demand their coffee in so many diverse ways that I have some difficulty remembering all “recipes”. Here goes a list with the several types of how can coffee be served and descriptions (names is Portuguese).

• Café, Bica, Expresso (standard coffee on a normal cup)
• Curto, Italiana, Fino (a small amount of coffee inside a cup, maybe up to half way)
• Cheio, Comprido (Cheio means full, same cup than the standard, up to the edges)
• Carioca (leave the first bit of coffee to flow out and then put the standard cup, coffee gets not so strong/burned)
• Abatanado (a dosage of coffee but the double of water of the standard one served on a bigger cup)
• Cappuccino (gets coffee, chocolate, sodium bicarbonate, milk and cream, according to the costumer)
• Pingado (similar to the standard but with a drop of milk)
• Meia de Leite (served on a bigger cup than the standard and it is half milk half coffee)
• Garoto (same cup as the standard but half milk half coffee – Garoto means kid in Portuguese – so it is a smaller version of the Meia de Leite)
• Galão (a glass of milk with a standard coffee inside)

But it doesn’t stop here! You can add water to the Curto, ask your coffee in a hot or cold cup, you can have it with or without sugar, or if you are on diet just add a sweeter!

I’m still very active on the whaling issue and we (anti-whaling groups) are preparing some nice actions for the near future. Wait as well for new and creative forms of confrontation with the whalers. When I’m not in some crazy action or writing stuff for the “No Whaling Campaign”, surfing or diving you can find me at Barraca bar (Praia da Areia Branca, Portugal) from 1000 to 1830, pass by to say hello… and how do you want your coffee? (we also have toasts, salads, deserts, ice creams, drinks etc …)