We are a boutique travel agency helping families travel in richer, more connected ways. We host curious families at our Family Gathering events in dynamic places around the globe, and design bespoke itineraries through our Black Book trip design service. Send us an email at martin@quartiercollective.com.
Along the way we capture stories of curious and enchanting family life all over the world.
We didn’t travel a lot when I was a kid. Nobody in our little farming town did. But we did watch movies. More accurately, we watched the same few movies over and over on VHS. This is why I can sing every word to every song in the Sound of… Read More
Riding the summer ferries that run from the ports of Athens across the scattershot of the Cyclades is like riding the rush-hour metro, but with sticky carpet and TV’s blasting Greek music videos from the 2000’s. You’ll see everyone there, the bright-eyed family with matching luggage, the black-frocked priest in… Read More
I remember watching the wind blow old newspapers down the abandoned streets of the Mission in San Francisco, and the echoing emptiness of the normally teeming plazas in Lisbon’s Chiado. The pandemic was hard on big cities. Millions checked out, trading cramped apartments for life in the small towns. Tourism… Read More
Four things you can find in the country home of a Japanese eccentric and cultural luminary: A vintage calligraphy station The dreaded mukade, centipede from hell A very loud stereo A kitchen table that can seat 20 Both times we met Teruo Kurosaki he was wearing sunglasses, indoors and at… Read More
The first week we spent in Bali I hated the place. We were fresh from a month in cool, clean New Zealand, and Bali was by contrast a chaotic, choked struggle. We’d been warned that Bali had evolved from the quiet paradise surfing hippies lauded back in the 80’s, but… Read More
Part of our “job” is working with brands we love for hire. That can take many forms, from shooting entire collections in exotic locations to providing a few photos of us or our kids that a brand can use on their socials. Our following is modest and brands don’t really… Read More
