An expedition...

...to see The Angel of The North...
We used to pass regularly when we came oop north on the A1, but haven't been near since we started using the A19 as it was quieter & quicker. It's her birthday this year, so we decided it was time we got up close - and my, is she tall! And there's more under the ground keeping her upright ( in winds up to 100 miles an hour ) than there is above ground!!

"Why an angel - the only response I can give is that no-one has ever seen one, and we need to keep imagining them. The angel has three functions - firstly a historic one to remind us that below this site coal miners worked in the dark for 200 years, secondly to grasp hold of the future expressing our transition from the industrial to the information age, and lastly to be a focus for our hopes and fears."
Antony Gormley - sculptor