In Pictures: How Sweden Welcomes Summer

On the Bohuslän Coast, the sea is sparkling, and the crayfish are jumping. Summer in Sweden is (finally) here.

On the Bohuslän Coast, the sea is sparkling, and the crayfish are jumping. Summer in Sweden is (finally) here.

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Peter Jon Lindberg

May 19, 2015

It’s one of those shimmering Swedish afternoons when everything seems to glow from within: the boathouses on the harbor, all pulsing vermilion red; the wind-rippled bay, glittering like a million suns; and the chalk-white houses of coastal Fjällbacka, luminous under the Nordic sky. Around the third week of June, the entire country is catapulted into a joyful panic. Read the full article, this way.

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Overlooking the Bohuslän Coast from Fjällbacka

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Seafood and homebrewed beer at Karlsson’s guesthouse, Everts Sjöbod (left); Grönemad fisherman Per Karlsson on his restored boat, the Tuffa (right).

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Boathouses on Smögen’s main boardwalk (left); swimming off the docks in Smögen (right).

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Coffee and a kardemummabulle (cardamom roll) from Lyckans Stenugns Bageri, in Lyckan (left); a boathouse in Grönemad (right).

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Traditional boathouses on the north side of Smögen (right).

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The Fjällbacka harbor (left).

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