The tourist office can also tell you more about access to and accommodation in Tiveden National Park, whose easy trails and lakeridden forests stretch between Karlsborg and Askersund, 47kin northeast of town. Jt IW и Forsvik f As far back as the early fifteenth century, the Karlsborg area maintained an important monastic paper mill, 8km north at TORSVIK Using the height differential between the two lakes, first over waterwheels and later through power generating turbines, a sizeable industry emerged, working all manner of metal and wood products. The dissolution of the monasteries after the Reformation left Forsvik a secular concern, which continued to operate until its closure in 1941. Today it is a museum OuneAug noon6pm; fiee), gradually being restored to its 1940s condition. A bus runs here from Karlsborg fairly frequently during the summer. travel details Trains From Gothenburg to Trollhattan (MonSat roughly hourly, Sun Б; 4050min); Vanersborg (MonFri 5; Sat & Sun 1; Ihr); StrSmstad (9 daily, bus on some departures; 2hr 40min3hr|: Stockholm (hourly: 3hr4hr 30mln): Karlskrona Kalmar (46 dally; 4hr 50min). In addition, daily OsloCopenhagen express trains operate down the west coast and, despite complicated tinr}etabling, the service Is frequent and regular north or south of Gothenburg. Buses From Gothenburg to HelslngborgMalmo (Fri S Sun 3; 3hr 30mln4hr 30min); Stromstad daily; 2hr 30min); Jonkoping (36 daily. 30min); FalunGavie (12 daily; 8hr10hr|; (Frl & Sun 1; Bhrl; Stockholm (Fri 3, Sun 2; 7»n i. Karlskrona (fri & Sun 1; 5hr 30min); Oslo (34 daily; 5hr); TrollhSttanVanersborg (1 daily; Ihr 1hr20min); Karlsborg (Fri & Sun; 3hr). From Lidkoping to TrollhattanVanersborg (23 daily; Ihr 20mln); Mariestad (23 daily 35min|; Orebra (23 daily; 2hr 40min). Note that there are 13 daily buses from Halmstad llinked to Gothenburg by train) to Denmark's Kastwp Airport via Helsingborg I3hr 30minl НеШпдвг I4hr 30min) and Copenhagen I5hr SOminl. Ferries From Gothenburg to Harwich (1 daily summer, 3 weekly rest of the year; 24h Newcastle (1 weekly midJune to midAug; 24h Frederikshavn (36 daily; 3hr 15min); Kiel (1 dail 14hr). TRA VEL D ETA I LSI From Stromstad to Sandefjord (midJune 1 midAug 5 daily; 2hr 30min); Fredrikstad (mi( June to midAug 5 daily MonSat; Ihr 15mir Halden (midJune to midAug 3 daily MonSa 1hrl5min|. CHAPTER ELEVEN THE SOUTHWEST T here is a real Mstorical interest to tiie southwestern provinces of Halland, Skane and Blekinge, not least in the towns and cities that line the coast. The flatlands and fishing ports south of Gothenburg were almost constantly traded between Denmark and Sweden, counters won and lost in the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries. Several fortresses, not all forlorn, bear witness to the region's medieval buffer status. Halland, a finger of land facing Denmark, is a length of almost unbroken sandy shoreline, punctuated by some of the most laidback resorts in the south.