The Grand Circus Hotel provides the perfect base to explore Malmö, and one of its most loved attractions is its gregarious owner
Fionnuala outside the colourful ‘The Clown’ wagon at The Grand Circus Hotel
When I asked for a lift from the train station on my first day in Malmö, I was told the driver would pick me up in the “big pig”. I quickly spotted a bright red van, spray painted to look like a huge pig, with “Grand Circus Hotel” emblazoned in flames on the side.
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.