It depends what sort of day you want, with or without beer.

In terms of shopping there are a few options.

The city centre is getting quite trendy, eldon square is a big shopping mall in the middle of the town, Northumberland street is much like Oxford Street in London, a lot smaller though!!!

The Metrocentre in Gateshead used to be the biggest mall in Europe, it has loads of variety in it and has spanish cafe's things like that.

The Royal Quays is in North Shields, thats where you get the ferry from, this is a cheap factory outlet place where you get brand names cheaper, again plenty of variety.
You can also get a ferry across the Tyne to South Shields and go to the beach if the weather is nice.

If your having a few drinks the best places to go are the Quayside and Jesmond, We have the bigg market but its a bit tacky!!!!!! You have massive hills to walk up from the quayside as Newcastle is quite steep.

There is also the coast, Whitley Bay, Cullercoats, again, if its nice you can walk right along from Whitley Bay up to North Sheilds, you will see the twin piers at Tynmeouth and the Castle.

The Castle in NEWCASTLE isn't very good, its tiny!!! Its no wonder the Scots kept getting the better of us!!! LOL

the best thing to do is go to our tourist board in Newcastle Central Station, they have loads of leaflets, if i think of anything else i will PM you, plus if you go for a drink in Jesmond let me know and i will buy you both a pint cos that s where i drink all the time!!!! LOL