The main address for this site is http://expat.silvert.org. All other sites are mirrors and may be out-of-date.

Expat Links

This section will list organisations that serve the Expatriate community with links to their web sites and/or email addresses for contacting them. Organisations that would like to have web sites but have not yet set them up are welcome to send me material that I can set up for them.

While I know of several organisations that should be listed here, I will not put in any references or links unless so requested by the organisations themselves. Consequently the links below do not reflect my preferences, just the initiative of groups that have contacted me. These contacts are all in Portugal unless otherwise indicated.

There are organisations that address the needs of the American community, but they have decided that in the interest of security they would prefer to minimise their presence on the web. You can read my opinion of this policy if you wish.

These links all tested valid as of 15 October 2003. Italicised links have been broken on one round of testing, if they are broken the second time I test them they will be removed.

Official (i.e., governmental) agencies

Expat Websites

Since this site serves all expats, I have listed sites that are not specific to a given country as well as sites that are primarily about Portugal.

General Expat websites

Websites for Expats and Tourists in Portugal

Websites dealing mainly with Tourist Attractions and Property Rentals & Sales (I will probably stop listing firms here since I get too many requests from real estate firms)

There are many others, a web search on the words "expat" and "portugal" generates about 14,000 hits, so you can search away and probably find something useful. (Wow, I wrote this several years ago - now it generates almost 900,000 hits!)

Links of general interest about Portugal, not just for foreigners

Commercial links, firms that cater to the expat community

I list firms that might be OK, meaning that I have no reason to think that there is anything wrong with them. The fact that I list a firm here does not in any sense mean that I endorse it, or even know anything about it. Most of these places contacted me and I saw no reason not to list them. View these as free classified ads.

However because of the number of requests I am receiving for link exchanges and the inconvenience of adding links, I am very slow in adding new links and make no promises about whether and when any requested links will be added. In general I do not add commercial links unless they really seem to belong here. I do not generally include links for real estate firms, since there are just too many and most are for rentals.

Every so often I check for broken links and may remove a link after just one failure, so if a site is down temporarily it can go into the bit bucket.

Many of these links are to firms that sell food products. Keep in mind that foreign foods are increasingly available in Portugal, especially at supermarkets like Apolónia in Almancil. I frequently hear expats complain that they cannot find things that I can find quite easily, even at small local shops.