You can easily spend half a day here snapping away at the brownred fishing sheds, each with its own miniwharf. The tourist office may ten you that Ingrid Bergman had a summer house here; she didn't, it was out on one of the neighbouring islands, which you can visit on boats leaving from tre harbour aate June to early Aug). If you want to stay in Fjallbacka, there's a youtn hostel (May to midSept; =052531 234) and a campsite nearby. ТЪе largest town on the coast is LYSEmL, reached by express coach (every 2hr; lOOkr) from Gothenburg. Not especially attractive or laden . sights, it is still a centre for trips out to dozens of small islands in the , j tourist office on Hamngatan («052313 050) can fill you in on the details ana, j the absence of a youth hostel, help with accommodation. fPllhgttVanersborg and the Gota Canal If ou don't have your own transport then the easiest places to see from r Aenburg and the most rewarding on a short visit are the few small towns th°t lie along the river that stretches from Gothenburg north to Lake vSiern TTie River Gota was made navigable as far as the lake by a series of locks h ilt last century (see below) and it's a fine day out to make the journey by boat up theTrollhattan Canal: Gothenburg's tourist office sells tickets for the route from tjje city to Trollhattan, around 70km north. Alternatively, you can reach Trollhattan by train, several daily making the fortyminute trip. A few kilometres further north, Vanersborg lies right on Lake Vanem itself, a holiday town with some elkspotting possibilities close at hand. There are canal boat trips in summer between Trollhattan and Vanersborg, so there's little excuse for missing some of the region's best scenery. Trollhattan A delightful target for a trip, TOOLLHATTAN is the kind of place you might end up staying for a couple of days without really meaning to. A small town, it nevertheless manages to pack in plenty of offbeat entertainment along with some peaceful river surroundings. Built around the fast river that for a couple of hundred years powered its flour mills and sawmills, Trollhattan remained fairly isolated until 1800, when the first successful set of locks was installed to bypass the town's furious local waterfalls. River traffic took off and better and bigger locks were installed over the years, so that today tankers up to 4000 tons use the system an average of ten a day year round, as well as around 6000 yachts and boats in the summer. The locks and the steep sides of the falls are the main sights in town and there are paths along the whole system as well as orientation maps. Call in at the Insikten Energy Centre for a runthrough of local energy and environmental matters, and then follow the footpath from Oskarsbron, one of the town's central bridges, down to the hydroelectric power station OuneAug guided tours daily 10am4pm). In operation since 1910, its thirteen massive generators are all computercontrolled, and if s a more interesting visit than you might think, since the building itself is fine, with a great arched stone frontage.