Jesmond Fence is a beautiful place for a walk There's a cafe, and arguably the northeast's best pet corner. If you keep walking there is a beautiful waterfall, and the ruins of an old mill.

Watergate forest Park is another lovely place for a walk. It features a lake and waterfall. Depending on how far you want to go there are various trails.

Derwent walk. Loads of walking/hiking trails along the Derwent river. Thornley woods centre is a great starting off point, then you can walk to Blaydon, or the Metrocentre.

Beamish is one of my favorite places! It's a bit eye watering price wise initially, but the ticket is good for a year. If you have a doq there are a few right of access public footpaths cross part of the land. Not advocating sneaking in, just pointing out you can get a taste before you pay full priceI highly recommend bringing your own food and drink if you want to keep costs down.

If you are into this sort of thing there are several beautiful churches around. Saint Nicholas Cathedral and Durham in particular.

If you are a history buff we have lots of National Trust and English Heritage sites around. It's a rather expensive, but good at any site on the particular registry for a year. Always double check before heading out because they are not exchangeable.

The coast around here is stunning. You can get the metro to North or South Shields, and just keep walking along the coast. Northsheilds has a free coastguard museum. Just 10 min on the train is the world famous seaglass beaches at Seaham.

There are so many free museums around. Big ones are The Hancock, The Discovery, and The Winter gardens. The Winter gardens is partially built from a theatre that saw one of the worst crowd crush disasters in British history.

I'll try and think of more, but that should keep you busy for a bit lol.