A68

With a big Northern League game at Bedlington this evening I decided to make a day of it with a trip up the A68 to Corbridge to visit the Roman Site, before cutting cross-country via the B roads to Morpeth for some tea ahead of the match, by then just down the road; and on a bright day with high clouds scudding over the north Pennines, the drive was a delight, mainly as the few trucks were all heading south leaving the road  open, with swooping hills, Roman road straights and sweeping bends, through stone built villages with gritty houses and gritty names – Toft Hill, Crook, Tow Law and Kiln Pit Hill – so at times I seemed to be in a car commercial.