🇪🇸 Madrid → 🇦🇺 Melbourne · 1 week

Order a magic (a double ristretto with 3/4 flat white milk) at Patricia Coffee Brewers on Little William Street — standing room only, no laptops, and one of the best coffee bars in a city that treats coffee as a religion.

Walk Hosier Lane for street art on a weekday morning before tourists arrive — the curved laneway near Federation Square has wall-to-wall rotating murals, and the side alley (Rutledge Lane) is often even better. The art changes constantly.

If there's a game on, buy a walk-up ticket to the MCG (Melbourne Cricket Ground) on a Saturday AFL match day — the atmosphere inside Australia's largest stadium for a Melbourne derby is one of sport's great crowd experiences, tickets from A$35.

Take the morning tram to the Royal Botanic Gardens and specifically find the Indigenous Plant Walk — a winding path through native species with interpretive plaques explaining how Wurundjeri people used each plant. Quieter and more interesting than the main lawns.