A week at Anceu

Most weeks here have a shape. Not a schedule — nobody hands you one — but a rhythm that the house settles into and that newcomers pick up within a couple of days.

A Tuesday morning, more or less.

Mornings belong to work

The coworking rooms fill up early and stay quiet. Ergonomic chairs, standing desks, and 1 Gbps symmetric fibre, which matters more than it sounds when your job depends on a call not dropping. Most people here work full-time remote jobs or run their own thing.

The quiet is a convention, not a rule. People take calls in the two dedicated call rooms so the shared rooms stay workable.

Three dinners a week

We cook and eat together on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, starting around 20:00. Colivers split into three groups, and each group takes a turn on cooking and cleaning. With three dinners a week that means you cook once, then not again until the following week.

People usually stay at the table until eleven. You are free to leave whenever you like — and free to skip a dinner, though almost nobody does twice.

Friday is the up-cycling dinner: whatever the week left over, cooked into something on purpose. It started as a way to waste less food and turned into the meal people talk about most.

Afternoons and the light

Galicia gets long evenings for most of the year. People walk, swim in the river, work outside when the weather allows, or drive thirty minutes to the nearest beach, at Redondela. Some weeks somebody organises something — a workshop, a talk, a hike. Some weeks nobody does, and that is fine too.

What a week is not

It is not a retreat, and it is not a hotel. Nobody entertains you and nobody tidies up after you. What you get is a house full of people doing serious work in a place that makes it easier, and a table three nights a week where you find out what everyone else is building.

If that sounds right, tell us roughly when you would like to come.

See also: Eating together