🇳🇱 Amsterdam → 🇧🇷 São Paulo · 1 week

Go to MASP (Museu de Arte de São Paulo) on a Tuesday when admission is free, and walk directly upstairs to the Italian and French impressionist floor — the collection is staggeringly good and almost always under-visited in the upper galleries. The glass building suspended on red pillars above Avenida Paulista is worth examining from the plaza below too.

Rent a bike inside Ibirapuera Park on a Sunday morning (the roads close to cars) and cycle the full 158-hectare circuit before 10am, when the park fills with São Paulo families doing their weekly exercise. The MAM modern art museum inside the park is free on Sundays.

Eat at the Mercado Municipal on a weekday morning and order a mortadella sandwich from Hocca Bar on the upper floor — a São Paulo institution. The market's stained-glass windows are from 1933 and the tropical fruit display alone justifies the detour.

Walk the Beco do Batman alley in Vila Madalena — the ever-changing street art fills every surface of this narrow lane and the surrounding streets. Go on a weekday afternoon when the artists are sometimes still working and the Instagram crowds are thinner.