Sunday, December 1, 2013

Weather Island


The weather on the Skagerrak coast of Sweden, just south of Norway, blows in hard from the Atlantic. Ian Henderson heads to an isolated rock that gets it first - and finds it strangely familiar. 

Like the better-known archipelago on the eastern Baltic coast of Sweden, dotted with the red-painted summerhouses of wealthy Stockholmers, the western coast (known as Bohuslan) is a maze of channels, islands and picturesque harbours. But open to the Atlantic, Bohuslan is the tougher, hardier side of Sweden. It's also home to Aunt Jatt, who came back from Australia to her beloved Hamburgsund after her working days were done.