For a bike ride with a difference try cycling along a former railway line - literally. You pedal trolleys which hook onto the rails and lift them off when someone's coming in the other direction to allow them to pass! The trolleys make an authentic clickety-clack noise as they rattle over the joints in the rails and take a passenger, sidecar-style. Great family fun and impossible to get lost.

www.svedjegarden.se/dressinse.html
Google map: bit.ly/qsIqtL

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Hackfall Wood is located deep in a ravine near with a churning river at the bottom. What makes it really different, though, is the follies which were dotted around the landscape by William Aislabie, son of the creator of the nearby Fountains Abbey garden, in the 18th century. They have recently been restored - but only partly which leaves the place with an air of mystery so that it feels like you're discovering it for the first time. At twilight on an autumn day it's magical - and more than a little spooky.

Grewelthorpe near Ripon
www.hackfall.org.uk/
Google map: bit.ly/bGGzPW

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