A home for four weeks
Not a room between excursions. Somewhere the family can unpack and live.
European summer · whole families
The kids get summer.
The parents get to keep their lives.
Four weeks by the Atlantic. Camp for the children, working time for the adults, and a small circle of families living the month together.
The simple version
A European summer camp for the whole family
Families want a month abroad without putting work, childcare, and ordinary life on hold. Summer in Common brings the pieces together: a home, a serious children’s program, a place to work, and people to share the month with.
Camp with a real day
Ages 6–12 in the first version, built around active afternoons and evenings.
Time for the adults to work
Best for Eastern and Central hours, or work that can shift and bend.
A month with neighbours
Eighteen families, shared dinners, weekend plans, and familiar faces.
What the month feels like
Ordinary life, moved to the coast
The appeal is not a packed itinerary. It is waking up somewhere beautiful and still having a life that works.
08:00 · together
The morning still belongs to the family
Breakfast, bikes, the beach, or nowhere in particular. The month leaves room for ordinary time together.
14:00 · work
The adults get a real working block
A desk, a door, reliable internet, and enough quiet to do more than answer email from the pool.
14:00 · camp
The children get their own summer
Friends, movement, coast, language, and the kind of stories that belong to them rather than their parents.
20:30 · the long table
Nobody has to build a social life alone
A month works differently when there are other families to call for dinner, the beach, or an ordinary Tuesday.
You are considering the month
Could this work for our family?
See the real work-hour question, three practical ways to do it, and what the month may cost.
Start with family lifeYou are considering the company
Could I build this for other families?
See the first summer, the founder’s actual job, the money, the partners, and the path to launch.
Start with the businessThe first summer
Portugal
4 Jul – 1 Aug 2027
Eighteen families. About thirty children. Four weeks by the Atlantic. The final choice is between the premium Cascais–Oeiras coast and the better-value Porto–Foz–Matosinhos coast.
See how the city gets chosenFOUNDING PLAN
- Families
- 18
- Children
- About 30
- Ages
- 6–12
- Family of four
- €13,900–€15,400
- Camp
- Mon–Thu
13:30–21:30 - Friday
- 13:30–18:30
Why this is worth building
The need is already sitting in plain sight
Working parents struggle to cover summer. Millions can work away from an office. Other companies have shown that families will cross an ocean for the right month. The opening is not to copy them. It is to make the experience clearer, warmer, and better matched to real family life.
of working parents who need care for children 6–12 reported trouble finding summer care
U.S. workers usually worked from home in the latest figure used by the research
families Roam said it served in summer 2026, an early sign that the category is real
One idea · two complete packets
Read the story here. Take the work with you.
The family packet helps someone decide whether to join a month like this. The founder packet shows how to build a better version.