Sweden’s second city opens onto 2,000 islands, most of them car-free, all of them within reach of a tram ticket. On Sweden’s west coast, the city of Gothenburg gives way to water. Trams run to their final stops. Industrial docks thin into marinas. Then granite replaces asphalt.
Beyond the harbor lies an archipelago scattered along the Bohuslän coastline, more than 2,000 islands, islets, and skerries, many only minutes from the mainland. Unlike much of Europe’s …