You can start the trip from the cost town Gothenburg, founded at the 1600s. At the time Gothenburg was the important harbor and main port out to the North Ocean. Later, on the 1800s and early 1900s, it was from here that emigrants, from all of Sweden left their homes and families to search a new life in England and sometimes Denmark. But most of the emigrants left for North and South America.
Today Gothenburg is still an important sea town and many big companies do ship their gods throughout the World. One of the most known companies is Volvo – that distributes their cars worldwide from the harbor in Gothenburg. Also Gothenburg is a great town for tourist and keeps all facilities anyone could wish for. Among others there is a well known amusement park called Liseberg.

From Gothenburg we follow the coastline going north and soon we will find the most beautiful nature and small fishing villages. We will reach the village Fjällacka where you find a lot of small restaurants, fishing market, shops, and a guestharbur with 100s of tourist vessels seeking shelter trough the nights. But the tourist not only looks for shelter from the North Sea – they also do entertain themselves in the small restaurants and pub’s and discotheques in the harbor.

We keep going north meeting the amazing archipelago at the islands Orust and Tjörn – and then take a little turn to a most fantastic little town called Lysekil. Here you find an ice free harbor and also the only really fjord in Sweden, Gullmarsfjorden. This is the best diving water in Sweden You can see up to 30 meters in the deep waters, and dive for your own mussels, making a great dinner in the afternoon. Also her you find a lot of seals resting at the rocky islands. In Lysekil you also find the red granite rocks where you can walk trough the fantastic national park Stångehuvud – feeling the salt storms coming in from the open ocean, and where nothing can grow, except small colorful flowers between the rocks, in the wind. And here you see the seagulls playing in the wind while you watching the ever ending waves rolling in to the granite mountain. This is one of the favorite places on the earth for many people.
After the Diving in Lysekil you do keep north and take a side way to meet the little fishing village Smögen. This is one of its kind and absolutely worth stopping for. You will meet thousands of visitors, especially in the well sheltered harbor, where the fishing weasels meet the most modern vessels and sailing ships. The tourists come from a lot of countries around the North Sea. And right on the bridge – over one kilometer long, you find almost hundreds of small houses that once belonged to the fisherman’s. Today it’s a big market for all kinds of merchandises mixed with restaurants, pubs and discothèques.
And when the hectic night turns into morning the visitors, that are still awake, walks out to the naked cliffs at the North Sea, where the light from the sundown still casts light into the ocean, and with a little luck you can see sea fishing float coming in bringing new boiled shrimps to get sold worldwide at the mornings fish auction.

And if we look north we can almost see the Norwegian border, but first don’t miss the two islands, Stora o Lilla Kosteröarna. After that we do keep driving north soon reach the little cost town Strömstad, located just by the Norwegian border. This area is today one of the largest market centers in Sweden.