Profile information
Travel information
I am currently
Travelling
My next destination:
Greece - from Dec 2025 until Dec 2026 View all
Description
Hi there, I’m Matt, a fun loving, a full time traveller from Sweden. Although, its more then 20 years since I actually lived there.
Through the years since I left Sweden I have been living a very free, nomadic inspired life. Slow travelled around 40 countries, lived and worked for longer periods in some of the countries visited. Learning about the countries, its culture, foods and traditions. Travelling and living like this has brought me to many beautiful places and has given me many amazing memories.
In 2011 I started my first hitchhiking trip, by trying my luck thumbing my way from Portugal to The Netherlands. It took 48 hours and 5 rides to complete and opened up a whole new world of fun ways to travel. Since then hitchhiking has been my main way to travel.
Food and cooking has always been one of my greatest passions. Never went to a culinary school, but had the luxury of working in a kitchen with really good chefs who taught me everything I needed to know about how to become a good cook. But, the kitchen life where I was thought cooking requires 80-100 hour weeks which killed the fun in cooking so I quit and brought my skills out on the road instead. Since then I have been cooking and making people happy with foods in hostels, pubs and bars, farms, Airbnb's and many other random places. I can cook anything, vegan, vegetarian, meat, fish and poultry.
Next to cooking I love spending time with animals, especially dogs! I had the privilege to spend some time in a dog shelter in Greece through workaway in 2024, getting lots of experience working with dogs and also handling dogs that need more attention due to reactive behaviours, anxiety, fear and so on. There was a professional dog trainer there around the shelter who was happy to share his knowledge.
Through the years of traveling I have always found ways of being in touch with my creative sides through DIY, restoration, building new things out of old things and know my way around most of the building trades.
Interests
Writing
Self development
Photography
Music
Mountain
Farming
Camping
Plant care
Pets
Nature
Outdoor activities
Gardening
Charity work
Culture
DIY & crafts
Hiking
Hitchhiking
Animals
Cooking & food
Carpentry
Books
Architecture
Languages
Languages spoken
English: Fluent
Swedish: Fluent
Dutch: IntermediateMore details about my language interests
This workawayer has indicated that they would be interested in sharing their language(s) or learning a new language. You can contact them directly to discuss this.
Skills and knowledge I'd like to share or learn
I'm interested in:
Gardening
Some knowledge of:
Eco Projects
DIY and building projects
Animal Care
Life at a Farmstay
Helping around the house
Hospitality/Tourism
General Maintenance
Helping with Computers/ Internet
Able to teach about:
Creating/ Cooking family meals
More details about your skills
Skills that i have and of which I am really confident and experienced to work with:
- Hospitality (hostels and restaurants)
- Painting and decorating
- Cooking/bartending (worked in restaurants for 12 years)
- Farm work (experience from organic farms and animal farms)
- Gardening
Been nicknamed "MacGyver" through some of the jobs at have had due to my ability to fix things in some very creative ways.
Age
46
What else ...
My happy place is when I get to cook for others. If by some reason I could do this for an NGO somewhere I'd be very keen on coming to help.
Some more information
Smoker
Driver's licence
Allergies
Special dietary requirements
Feedback
Matt was a big help during his entire stay, which turned out to be two and a half months. He is used to volunteering and comes with a good amount of routine and experience. You don't have to explain him much, he understands quickly how the place is working, which tasks are there to do and he works independently. He covered a big variety of… read more
The task varies and Sarah always tries to accommodate your own whishes of how you can help the project forward and also the animals.
I cooked for the team, helped with the laundry, built new dog enclosures, worked the dogs who needed more attention due to… read more
Mat is definitely a person who likes to get things done and likes to see the results at the end of a day of work. When he starts something, he wants to finish it. This mindset is very valuable and this way we got some important progress while he was around. For his help we are very… read more
The idea of the project is an amazing idea to rejuvenate and populate abandoned houses and farm, starring with the house and surrounding areas they have now.
Spent three weeks here clearing dead branches from trees, working with a chainsaw… read more
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Matt was a big help during his entire stay, which turned out to be two and a half months. He is used to volunteering and comes with a good amount of routine and experience. You don't have to explain him much, he understands quickly how the place is working, which tasks are there to do and he works independently. He covered a big variety of… read more
The task varies and Sarah always tries to accommodate your own whishes of how you can help the project forward and also the animals.
I cooked for the team, helped with the laundry, built new dog enclosures, worked the dogs who needed more attention due to… read more
Mat is definitely a person who likes to get things done and likes to see the results at the end of a day of work. When he starts something, he wants to finish it. This mindset is very valuable and this way we got some important progress while he was around. For his help we are very… read more
The idea of the project is an amazing idea to rejuvenate and populate abandoned houses and farm, starring with the house and surrounding areas they have now.
Spent three weeks here clearing dead branches from trees, working with a chainsaw… read more
