Now we have come home to Sweden, after our tour of Poland and the Czech Republic, and our first destination here at home was Tylösand outside Halmstad. My (Helena's) mum has a summer house there and of course we wanted to come and visit. I spent all my summers as a child in Tylösand so every corner feels like home, even though a lot has changed. We had time for both an evening walk and a morning walk past several beaches in Tylösand.
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Cave of swarms
We started our evening walk by going down to the beach that was called 'Little Beach' when I was a kid. Today, they have picked up the name 'Svärjarehålan' from an old map and adapted the beach for people with disabilities.
It's a really nice beach with stairs and a wheelchair ramp into the water, changing rooms with adapted toilets, and lifeguards on hand in the summer. People with disabilities are asked to show extra consideration, but the quiet and sheltered beach is also popular with older people and families with children.
Thief's den
When I was a kid, we usually swam from the rocks in Tylösand, not on the beaches, but occasionally we went to the beach called "Tjuvahålan". This family-friendly beach has a long jetty and is relatively close to the main beach in Tylösand.
The main beach
The beach that most people associate with Tylösand is probably the beach that we call "Stora stranden", but which seems to be called "Tylösand strand" if you google it. This beach has just recently, together with Böda beach, been recognised as a Sweden's best beach.
We can agree that the beach is long, that the surroundings are nice, that there is a good lifeguard service and that there are excellent opportunities for those who want to have After Beach and party. Unfortunately, the fine sand moves upwards, causing the sand on the beach to become thin, while it flies upwards and covers the footpaths behind the beach.
A lot of effort would have to be put into planning how to bind the sand on the large dunes (through fences to prevent trampling and planting of plants for example), but so far there are only small fences to prevent the sand from flooding the footpaths.
Rhododendron Park
This post is about the beaches in Tylösand, but I must also mention the Rhododendron Park! When I was a kid, it was much more wild than today, but even though the park itself is more manicured, the rhododendron bushes are, if possible, even more impressive. The bushes were planted in 1933 and have reached impressive sizes. Unfortunately, we were here when they were in full bloom, but imagine these "bushes" bursting with intense purple!
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Lennart says:
Our great idol spends some time in Tylösand!
16 July 2017 - 7:08
Helena says:
It is true! He has a house there, and he is also the owner of the big hotel Tylösand 🙂.
16 July 2017 - 8:52
Mr Frank Olsen says:
How nice to "greet" your mum Helena? There are great beaches in Sweden too, but the temperature could probably be a little higher... As for the sand that flies from the dunes, we have had major problems with it on the west coast of Norway. There they have planted something called mare straw. This works well! I don't know if the same thing is used in Sweden?
ramsar.kvassheim-friluftsfyr.no/PLANTER-I-OMRAADENE/Grasordenen/Marehalm.
16 July 2017 - 7:25
Helena says:
Thanks for your comment Frank, and thanks for the link! I don't know if the same plants have been planted in Sweden. In Tylösand, it doesn't seem that they have engaged in planting ... yet. But it would be needed!
16 July 2017 - 8:57
Kenneth Risberg says:
Welcome home to Sweden. Many years since I visited Halmstad and Tylösand, lovely sandy beach.
Only one month until the next adventure, see you in Trelleborg then.
16 July 2017 - 7:42
Helena says:
Thank you very much! Yes, we are looking forward to that adventure! Will be fun! 🙂
16 July 2017 - 8:58
Matts Torebring says:
Welcome home again. Thank you for all the positive input about Poland. What a start! Wow! As I have said so many times before, what ambassadors you are, for all types of travelling, not least with a motorhome. In the summer of the year twenty hundred, we travelled around southern Sweden in three weeks. We stopped at many of these "positively notorious" places, from Skanör up to Kungsbacka. I don't remember if we were at Tylösand. I remember saying at every campsite we checked in at. "I want a big plot near the sea, but without children's screams!
16 July 2017 - 8:12
Helena says:
Thanks for the nice and encouraging words Matts! There is certainly a lot to see in Sweden too! We have travelled around this country a bit more in the past, but we still have a lot to see!
16 July 2017 - 8:59
Christian says:
Tylösand is so nice! And the spa at Gessle's hotel is really good if you do not time in good beach weather! http://www.matochresebloggen.se/2015/06/hotel-tylosand-spa-och-strand.html
16 July 2017 - 9:10
Helena says:
Understand that you can have a luxurious and good time there! 🙂
16 July 2017 - 10:39
Mr Steve says:
See, now I got to learn something new about Swedish beaches too. Lovely Swedish beaches as your pictures show.
16 July 2017 - 9:39
Helena says:
Yes, Sweden also has a lot to offer! 🙂
16 July 2017 - 10:40
Husis blog says:
I would first like to start by welcoming you to Sweden and thank you for all the tips in Poland that entice the owners to take me there.
The owners stayed at Hotel Tylösand a few years ago and realise with this blog post that they missed a lot of things to see. But on the other hand, it was only a weekend and they probably couldn't fit more into the schedule anyway...?
16 July 2017 - 9:49
Helena says:
Thank you very much! 🙂 Glad that the owners have been to Hotell Tylösand! And you do not have to see exactly everything all the time, you should be cosy and relax too! 🙂
16 July 2017 - 10:41
Lena & Jan says:
Ah, welcome home! We celebrated Midsummer in Grötviken, Halmstad out on the harbour pier there (see the blog) and took walks / bike rides along the sea in your picture areas. WONDERFUL area. And sand between the feet should be there, hope for it also for future generations ? ? ? ??
16 July 2017 - 10:22
Helena says:
Glad you celebrated midsummer in Grötvik! Yes, it's nice in these areas! 🙂
16 July 2017 - 10:46
Cattis says:
Tylösand seems to be really nice and maybe even worth a visit in the future! ☺ I think I have some prejudices about this place since some programmes on TV showed the party atmosphere!?
en: Yes the northern part is not enough (although it is beautiful there too), Greece has a lot of beautiful and interesting things in the rest of the country too!
16 July 2017 - 10:34
Helena says:
I avoided watching that TV programme actually ... suspected that I would not want to see it ... 😉 But Tylösand is nice! And yes, I understand that Greece has more to offer, let's see when it happens ...
16 July 2017 - 10:48
Goatfish says:
What an enormously beautiful first image!
Welcome to Sweden and a trip to Tylösand, I see I have been to a conference at a hotel & SPA there with my work, but a few years ago. Then we went for some walks around. Lovely!
Nice to be reminded.
Skyline Sunday hug!
16 July 2017 - 10:59
Helena says:
Thank you very much, and glad you like the picture! 🙂 Also nice that you were at the hotel in Tylösand!!!
16 July 2017 - 12:44
Anna-Kari says:
hello
It was fun to read about Tylösand, I also "grew up" there in the summers my mum and dad had a cottage (the white masonite houses) in Tylösand.
They were wonderful summers, remembering lots of sun and play and crab fishing from the rocks.
16 July 2017 - 11:22
Helena says:
But oh, how nice that you have also been there in the summers Anna-Kari! Do you mean the small white houses that are quite close to the beach, between Tjuvahålan and Stora stranden? My cousin has a house there now! But your parents don't still have it, do they? I wonder if we were in Tylösand around the same time ... or if we are at different ages perhaps?
16 July 2017 - 12:47
Johanna in Skåne says:
Wonderful pictures that bring back many summer memories from the 80s! Singing moments in the built-in bunk beds, expeditions over the cliffs, the phone booth that started ringing (!) down at the little shop, swimming with and without jellyfish. Your 25th birthday when we made a surprise visit (in pouring rain) was also an adventure. (The car we had then was not so good... engine stop three times before we left Lund).
16 July 2017 - 11:39
Helena says:
Hi Johanna! What fun to read about your memories 😉 I really remember that when the phone booth called, so much fun, haha! Was it you who dropped an ice cream there too? Much is the same today, but it is a little more "organised" and well-ordered ... 😉.
16 July 2017 - 12:49
Johanna in Skåne says:
Don't remember anything about ice cubes? Maybe a trip past Tylösand can be made at some point.
16 July 2017 - 14:43
Helena says:
Maybe I remember wrong ... or it's different things that stick in the memory 😉 You'll have to take a trip past sometime! 🙂
17 July 2017 - 5:31
Lena - good for the soul says:
How nice it is there. I have been to many places in Sweden, but I think I actually missed Tylösand.
My goodness, what shrubs! Impressive size. They really thrive there.
Hug Lena
16 July 2017 - 11:47
Helena says:
Yes, the rhododendron bushes are thriving! Have never seen so big anywhere else. Cool when they bloom!!!
16 July 2017 - 12:50
Steel city anna says:
Away good but home best, I must say now that I have caught up on the round trips and ended up at this beautiful sea. Sweden in the summer is heaven 🙂
16 July 2017 - 13:03
Helena says:
Sweden is beautiful in the summer! 🙂
16 July 2017 - 18:05
Lisa in the village says:
What a great trip you had.
What great rhododendron bushes.
16 July 2017 - 14:45
Helena says:
Glad you followed our journey! The bushes are impressive I think 🙂 .
16 July 2017 - 18:06
Farmers' wives says:
Lovely beaches and familiar areas for me, as I have lived right in the neighbourhood. Now I live in the neighbouring town where the beach came fifth if I remember correctly.
16 July 2017 - 16:30
Helena says:
Glad you lived in the neighbourhood! 🙂 Which neighbouring town do you live in...?
16 July 2017 - 18:06
BP says:
Welcome home! Doesn't Per Gessle have a hotel in Tylösand?! Nice to have a celebrity as a "neighbour".
Fun with "walking memory lane" as you have done and being able to compare then and now.
It is beautiful in any case, but the beaches in Poland are at least as nice, I think. In addition, the sand does not escape there;-)
16 July 2017 - 17:57
Helena says:
Thank you very much! And yes, that's right! Per Gessle has the big hotel in Tylösand. He also has a private house there. And yes, the beaches in Poland are just as nice. Now, when there are problems with sand escaping from the beach in Tylösand, I think the beaches in Poland are nicer.
16 July 2017 - 18:08
Biggeros says:
Labour camps make me think of something completely different....summer jobs sound much better?
I have not been to Tylösand but Båstad and Beddingestrand. My teenage friend and (her parents) had a summer residence at Beddingestrand. I was there often and entertained the sunburn blah and swam all day long. Wonderful beach too. Fun to find out the names of the beaches and see these nice beach pictures. Which giant rhododendron???
16 July 2017 - 19:51
Helena says:
I haven't heard of Beddingestrsnd, but there are of course many nice beaches 🙂.
17 July 2017 - 5:23
Ann-Charlotte says:
The Halland coast is also "my" coast. I live further north and prefer rocks to sand 🙂 But our favourite campsite is Ugglarp, not far from Tylösand.
16 July 2017 - 22:21
Helena says:
I think I like both sand and rocks. The advantage of rocks is of course that you don't get sand that you drag in everywhere ... 😉.
17 July 2017 - 5:26
Ditte says:
Thank you for a nice visit in Tylösand. Been a long time since I was here, but nice to come back via you. Nowadays I am not at all on beaches so then it will be other destinations that attract more. There is so much nice in Sweden to choose from and right now I am exploring the very beautiful High Coast. Very beautiful nature and with much of the old preserved.
16 July 2017 - 23:19
Helena says:
Surely there are many nice things to see around Sweden! I have heard a lot of positive things about the High Coast and have also been there, but I have a feeling that we didn't find everything... shaky in your place!
17 July 2017 - 5:28
Across the board says:
Tylösand is beautiful and the park must be fantastic during the flowering season. "Labour camp" was perhaps a bit of a misnomer, because I don't think that's how I associate the name.
17 July 2017 - 6:54
Elisabeth says:
A Swedish holiday destination!
17 July 2017 - 13:21
Mrs Eriksson says:
How wonderful!!! 🙂
17 July 2017 - 15:37
Åsa says:
Good morning, sitting and looking around your site. This is not the first time? But every time I am so impressed with the work you do. Fantastic?? Stuck to this post. Have been "imported" to Halmstad for over 20 years. And just have to say that I really love this place on earth. It was nice to read about your childhood experiences Helena. Thank you?
25 April 2020 - 8:06
Helena says:
Good morning Åsa, and thank you for your kind words about our blog! What fun that you enjoy Halmstad! All my family, both on my mum's and dad's side, come from there 🙂.
25 April 2020 - 8:25
Maria's Memoirs says:
Tylösand looks really lovely! I myself am keen to drive up to Kalajoki (Finland) and check out the dunes there, and swim if the weather permits.
04 July 2020 - 9:51