Smögen! Hip or Hype?
Blue water, archipelagos, rocking boats, colorful wooden houses and Sweden's longest wooden pier - Smögen in the western Swedish province of Västra Götalands län is one of the country's tourist highlights.
Cafés, restaurants and numerous stores invite visitors to stroll along the one-kilometer-long wooden pier. The flair of the former fishing village in the historic province of Bohuslän attracts countless visitors every year.
Photographer: Roland Steffen - Gear: FUJIFILM XH2. Pictures not to be used without my explicit permission.
Charming Smögen is located on the island of the same name in the Skagerrak and is connected to the mainland and the town of Kungshamn by the Smögenbron. To this day, it remains one of the main transshipment points for the Swedish fishing industry.
Smögens restaurants delight their guests with especially fresh fish and shellfish. A delicacy are the so-called Smögenräkor, the locally caught Atlantic crabs. Swedes refer to Smögen as the shellfish capital of the world.
“You have to like Smögen!”
