{"id":202060,"date":"2025-12-20T14:55:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T14:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/202060\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T14:55:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T14:55:13","slug":"i-used-my-precious-annual-leave-to-volunteer-at-a-circus-hotel-in-sweden-heres-how-it-went","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/202060\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I used my precious annual leave to volunteer at a circus hotel in Sweden &#8211; here\u2019s how it went\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The Grand Circus Hotel provides the perfect base to explore Malm\u00f6, and one of its most loved attractions is its gregarious owner\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Fionnuala outside the colourful \u2018The Clown\u2019 wagon at The Grand Circus Hotel\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/a2a0b14a-9078-403c-8ecd-2b3be81e63d0.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Fionnuala outside the colourful \u2018The Clown\u2019 wagon at The Grand Circus Hotel<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">When I asked for a lift from the train station on my first day in Malm\u00f6, I was told the driver would pick me up in the \u201cbig pig\u201d. I quickly spotted a bright red van, spray painted to look like a huge pig, with \u201cGrand Circus Hotel\u201d emblazoned in flames on the side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">When I told friends and family that I was using my precious annual leave to volunteer at a circus hotel in Sweden, I got plenty of jokes about running away with the circus and getting a degree from clown college. But loading my rucksack into the pig van was my first indication I was in for an even weirder ride than I thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Grand Circus Hotel provides the perfect base to explore Malm\u00f6, and one of its most loved attractions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,1859],"class_list":["post-202060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sweden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}