Diversion

Needing to get my daughter to Newcastle Airport for her flight tomorrow morning, I decide to risk negotiating the extensive road works on the A1 Western Bypass, where to all appearance more earth has been excavated than during the building of the Panama Canal, and although the trip up north was hindered only by reduced speed limits, getting back south was more problematic; diverted off the main road, following diversion signs at best sporadic and at times misleading, we went wrong, crossing the Tyne three times (twice by the same bridge) and exploring Gateshead in great detail, before eventually emerging back on to the familiar motorway south only to get in the way of a siren-blaring ambulance whose intended direction was hard to work out.