Förarintyg, kustskepparintyg, NFB: what you need for a summer in the Swedish skerries, and how far a boating licence from your home country really gets you.

Finding a båtplats in Gothenburg: how boat clubs, the Grefab waiting list and private jetties work, what a mooring costs and how long you'll really wait.

Allemansrätten lets you camp, hike and pick berries almost anywhere in Sweden. What really applies, and where the limits are.

Seals come into the harbours, porpoises surface in the wake and the rocks glow warm in the evening light: the Swedish west coast is the opposite of the tidy, slightly dull Sweden many people imagine.

If you want to buy a house on Sweden's west coast, going in July is a mistake. Why April and May are the better choice, and what a scouting trip to Bohuslän needs to achieve.