Smögen and the Aeroseum
We decided to do something close to home this weekend considering we traveled over 2000 miles last weekend. We started it off by going to a fishing village called Smögen. It’s about an hour and a half north of Göteborg and is a very popular hangout in the summertime. As noted on Wikipedia “Smögen is well known today for its long, wooden pier (around 600 meters), filled with shops in old fishing huts, which are frequented by a multitude of tourists during the summer. Smögen is one of the most popular tourist destinations on the Swedish West Coast, well known for it’s fish, prawns and other sea-food, and one of Sweden’s few fish markets is located here.”
Before getting there, we had to cross Uddevalla bridge along the way. Rhonda remembered it from a year ago and we decided to find our way to the bottom after getting off of the freeway. It’s a very modern looking bridge and is unlike most bridges in Sweden. We made several wrong turns getting there, but with the help of a GPS Rhonda borrowed from a co-worker, we found our way. Below are some pictures of the bridge.
You can click on the next picture to get a large panoramic view. We made this one black and white for a different effect and because of the lack of color during this early spring.
After looking at two locations around the bridge, we made our way to Smögen. It was lunch time when we arrived so we decided to grab some lunch at the local pizzeria. Even though we wanted pepperoni, it is not the local favorite. This is our second pizza place we have been to in Sweden and ham, called skinka, seems to be the most common type of pizza.
We finished with lunch and found a place to park near the sea. It was a very windy, cold and rainy day. During some of the gusts, you could lean sideways into the breeze.
We took a nice walk by the water. There are many tiny buildings that open as new shops during the summer season. They are different every year. Below are some of the pictures from our walk.
Below is a view of the village houses when you enter the city.
Here is another view of some of the houses on the shoreline as a boat passes by.
Smögen is a great place to visit and is probably even better in the summer season. We may have to go here again in May.
On Sunday afternoon we decided to try to hit a few museums. The first was called the Aeroseum. It was opened up 2 years ago for public viewing. It was constructed during the cold war for the purpose of storing Swedish military aircraft. It is completely underground and is about the size of 3 football fields. We thought it would only take 2 hours to take the guided tour, but we ended up spending 4 hours because our guide did the tour in 2 languages, Swedish and English. Since the tour took much longer than expected, we decided to forgo the Volvo museum tour this weekend. Below are some pictures from the tour.
Rhonda always wanted to be a fighter pilot. Here she finally got her picture taken inside of one.
It was interesting to learn this bunker was built 50 years ago. However, the people of Göteborg only learned it existed 5 years ago. At one time they were going to fill it in with dirt and sand, but some “important person” got it approved to turn it into a museum. There are plans to build an amusement park on top of it, but it may be a while before that happens. It was a great tour.
Chad
Hello good sir.
Nice trip!
I just wanted to inform you that you have taken a photograph of “kungshamn” and called it “smögen”.
thats a big no-no localy out here 🙂
So the picture with “whole city” is actually a picture of another placed called Kungshamn, whole the rest is from Smögen!