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.
Almost all secrets are dying to be shared. Beans want to be spilled, and any living cat will use all of its earthly and unearthly powers to get let OUT of the bag. Doe Bay Fest, the annual four-day indie music festival on Orcas Island in Washington State,… Read More
This spring we met Ali and his family, newly arrived as refugees from Iraq, fleeing death threats and searching desperately for lifesaving medical care for little Zaid. We were honored to work with the International Rescue Committee to help tell their story. Our thanks to the… Read More
The Øresund Strait connects Copenhagen Harbour to the Baltic Sea, and in the month of April the water flowing through it rests just below six degrees Celsius. That’s 42 degrees Fahrenheit, or nearly the temperature inside your refrigerator. I know because I looked it up. I had been invited, or rather… Read More
It takes ages for Cecile Carré to work through the stacks of family sketchbooks in their Barcelona home. With five artists in the family there are a lot of pages. The dark lines and bright watercolours trace their family travels around the world, a remote village in Bali, markets in… Read More
Something like 45 million raindrops fall in fifteen days of rain. On the South Island of New Zealand and jammed in a single camper van, Courtney and Michael Adamo and their four children, felt like they were counting every one. Like a tiny submarine, their little craft drifted through all… Read More
Philippe Guisset was depressed. Belgian, married with two children but living alone in Madrid during the week while his family stayed in Barcelona. Work was good, and important, but trapped in the Spanish capital, his gloomy flat unnervingly silent, Philippe could feel a crisis beginning to gather. Perhaps, he… Read More
