Thrills, spills and trams

Just in time for the end of the holiday season we have discovered the web site Nerdy Day Trips, which has hundreds of ways in which Backbytes readers can bore their families.

Visiting the house where Alan Turing died to stare at the blue plaque might not take a whole day, but the UK holds many unsuspected charms. For example, if you're in Greenwich, you might visit the Fan Museum, "the only museum in the world devoted entirely to every aspect of fans and fan making," or the Hack Green secret nuclear bunker near Nantwich, or even to the outskirts of Bradford to see the Shipley Glen Cable Railway, "the oldest working cable tramway in Great Britain".