Northallerton

Catch a bus from Northallerton and climb into wild, open countryside. Visit Mount Grace Priory or cycle around Swainby and return in time for tea.

Windermere

Explore England’s largest lake by train, foot, bike, bus and boat. Enjoy iconic design, a brand new museum, peaceful walks and lakeside sunset.

Summer adventures

Birds, animals, castles, gardens and boat trips … Here are six summery escapes in reach of London that will make a day trip into an adventure.

RHS Garden Rosemoor

Enchanting gardens set in the wooded valley of the River Torridge

Car-free offer: £3.75 off entry with train/bus ticket or bike

Outdoor pools

Find lidos all over the UK that are easy to reach without a car. Combine a trip to the pool with a country walk or sightseeing around a the nearby towns and cities.

Nottingham

Nottinghamshire is a great place to explore car-free. Visit the castle on foot, the arboretum by tram, Newark by train or Melton Mowbray by bus.

Daffodils

Shakespeare’s Perdita longs for daffodils that “take/The winds of March with beauty”; here are six places to see daffs without a car.

Centre for Alternative Technology

Seven acres of hands-on displays, green buildings, renewable energy and beautiful organic gardens

Car-free offer: 20% off with train/bus ticket or bike

Huntingdon

An hour from London by train, there are some hidden gems hiding here among the thatched villages beside the River Ouse.

Waddesdon Manor

French Renaissance-style château, home to the Rothschild Collections of paintings, sculpture and decorative arts

Car-free offer: 2for1 entry with a train ticket and voucher*

Malton

Yorkshire’s self-styled "food capital", has some idyllic trips to offer: take a bus into the wooded wolds for a picnic or a boat round Castle Howard’s Great Lake from a vine-fringed tearoom veranda.

Westonbirt The National Arboretum

Experience around 2500 different species of trees from all over the world

Car-free offer: 30% off entry with valid train or bus ticket, or bike

Haunted journeys

Travel by bus, boat, train and foot to discover the UK's creepiest corners...

Go Cotswolds tours

Small-group day tours of the Cotswolds starting from Stratford-upon-Avon and Moreton-in-Marsh railway stations

Car-free offer: Free hot/cold drink (Day Tour) or free Purity beer (Brewery Tour), when you quote 'Good Journey' and travel car-free

Carmarthen

Discover historic tunnels, tidal boat trips, hidden gourmet restaurants, the village where Dylan Thomas wrote Under Milk Wood or the world's biggest greenhouse.

Canterbury

A speedy pilgrimage by high speed train from London St Pancras brings you to the cathedral city of Canterbury.