A day in Newcastle with dc 7yrs and 10yrs...

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How should we spend it? Never been there before; keen to 'see' it...

tia

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The discovery Museum was always by DC favourite place to go, lots to do and it's FREE!
The Hancock museum was good too, but it costs - the Real Mummy scared them, but the planetarium was a winner.

Go down onto the quayside - there's a good market there on a Sunday morning. Mooch along and go across the millennium bridge and into the Baltic - there's a viewing platform at the top which is worth a look even if modern art is not your thing!

Alternatively get the metro to tynemouth and there's an awesome market in the train station at the weekend. Then walk the 5 mins to the beach and have fish and chips at the coast!

The life centre in town is really good for kids. The Baltic down on the quayside ( but on the Gateshead side ) has some interactive kids stuff and a great cafe etc.
Second going out to tynemouth. Great place and brill beach cafe shops etc. also you can go on a boat cruise up the Tyne from down on the quayside.

discovery and hancock are free. Centre for life is good but not free. Seven stories is a museum of children's literature and is brilliant. Really brilliant. There is a little farm near it too which is good.

Otherwise it is a nice city to potter about in too.

Brilliant! Thank you!