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Exploring the rural area of Sweden

13 October 2021 By The Newbie Team Leave a Comment

What’s the first thing that comes to your mind when you talk about Sweden? I bet it’s snow, the northern lights, cold weather, and darkness. For me, it was exactly that but I knew Sweden was more than just darkness and cold. That’s how I ended up exploring the rural area of Sweden.  Written by Malena […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: life in sweden, Malmö, new in sweden, Newbie in Sweden, Sweden, tips for Newbies, volunteer

Travelling Sweden as a volunteer

12 August 2021 By The Newbie Team 2 Comments

Written by Malena Rasetto I lived in Sweden for 5 months, and the unique thing is that I didn’t live in one place but around.  I decided to travel to Sweden as a volunteer, which means to work in exchange for food and accommodation. In some places, I stayed 1 week, in others two months…  […]

Filed Under: Blog, Culture, Sweden, Work Tagged With: Sweden, Swedish autumn, travel, travel in sweden, volunteer

Volunteer at summer festivals in Sweden

29 June 2019 By The Newbie Team

Written by Elina Nomad What’s every newbie’s favourite topic in the support groups online? How to make friends in Sweden. All newbies and ‘oldies’ have different stories and ideas, suggestions, and so on. I will share with one my story how to make friends in Sweden before winter: volunteer at summer festivals. During my first […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: festivals, into the woods sweden, life in sweden, säljerydfestivalen, sjönevadfesten, summer, swedish festivals, swedish summer, urkult 2019, volunteer, way out w

Meet our fantastic blogger Lydia

7 May 2017 By The Newbie Team

The Newbie Guide to Sweden wouldn’t be what it is today if it wasn’t for all of the wonderful volunteers, bloggers and newbies who share their stories, experiences and skills with us. And because of this, we want to do a little shout out for these fabulous people. Lydia is our super blogger and produces […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: blogger, Bloggers, Newbie, newbie story, stories, volunteer

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