Tom Parker Bowles

“Melbourne is seen as Sydney’s dowdy sibling, the black-clad geek rather than the hard-bodied surf god,” says our food editor of his latest destination, on page 142. “But you’ll find it’s one of the world’s great cities. It doesn’t demand your love. But once bitten, forever smitten.” Food critic for the Mail on Sunday, Bowles’ latest book, Fortnum & Mason: Christmas & Other Winter Feasts (Fourth Estate), is out now.