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Harbour Ways is the sequel to Watery Ways, Valerie Poore’s first memoir about living on a barge in Rotterdam’s Oude Haven in the Netherlands. This second book tells of the first two years that she owned her own barge, the Vereeniging, and how she converts it from an empty hull into a home. Told with with Valerie’s usual tongue-in-cheek humour, Harbour Ways can be read as a stand alone memoir or as the follow on to Watery Ways.

My Review:

Mary Schmidt

5.0 out of 5 stars Great read Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2024

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Ms. Poore has written a great book about life on a barge. This is book 2 in a trilogy, and this is also the only book I’ve read. Ms. Poore is a tough act to follow. After leaving South Africa after a divorce, she moves to the Netherlands, and the real
adventure begins.

She found a lovely vintage barge and fell in love with it. But with buying any boat or house, not all is as it seems. Decades of neglect make their appearance known, hours and hours, and days, and weeks, and months go by with grueling work to make the barge livable and seaworthy. Thankfully, Poore makes friends with others who live their dream of barge living. Friends who help out each other are more precious than a few gold bars. The human factor is the real and true factor, and Poore finds just that.