Val Poore

Val Poore was born and raised in England but at the end of 1981, she moved to South Africa where she and her family lived for nearly twenty years. She loved South Africa, but returned to Europe in 2001. Since then, she’s been working as a freelance ESL writing skills teacher in the Netherlands. Val shares her time between a 123-year-old barge in Rotterdam’s Oude Haven and a cottage in Zeeland. She has written two memoirs about living in the Netherlands’ foremost museum harbour, as well as several other books.