Ernest Hemingway once described his fantasy as "two permanent barrera seats in Las Ventas with a trout stream running out back".

What is your favorite Madrid/Spain fantasy?

Mine is a perpetual weekend where none of my friends have to work the next day. Needless to say, unlimited funds, good weather and few more points on the "guapo" scale are involved!

Hola Mongo,

Well, my fantasy is to be in Madrid during the Annual Book Fair in May/June! I have always missed that.

hey everybody

mines is lying in a pool on a roof of a paseo de la castellana building,open to the velasquez skies.
all this on a beautiful sunny may afternoon with my future spanish wife/babe.

Ohh mine would be to get to Madrid before end of August, get all glammed up, meet up with some friends and get to see one of the Poncela plays, and then to savour the warm caressing breeze in my hair of a Madrileno starry night

I agree with Mongo, but "guapa". That life is for me.

I’d like to be a cat in Madrid

Then I could slink around secret places in the balmy night air. Silently springing up onto any viewpoint I wanted and surveying the moon and stars in every direction.

My night would be completed by sharing a large pile of gambas and anchovies and pulpo and calamaries and and ... purrrrrrrrrrr ...

Then I’d curl up for a big long snooze in a quiet shaded alley somewhere just occasionally lifting an eyelid to make sure I wasn’t missing anything.

Yep, I’m definitely going to be a cat next time round

My fantasy.....well, to begin with I would need permenant legal residency. I don´t seek great wealth so only a modest job and an equally modest piso would be required. Of course, to complete the fantasy I would need a Madrileña to whisper sweet Castillan words into my ears on a regular basis. Spanish women are unequaled!!!!

I am quite envious of the millions in Spain who live this fantasy every day.

Cheers

hey everybooooody

i second the spanish woman
there the best.
the hair
the eyes
the face
the body
the medium stature
ill stop right now jeje

Hola Miche,
They are now playing a Poncela play "al aire libre" in Madrid! ¿USTED TIENE OJOS DE MUJER FATAL?.- Dates: July 10th to August 31, 2003. Place: Jardines del Galileo (Galileo, 39). Time: Begins at 22.30 hrs. Price: 18 euros. (902 10 12 12)

Hola Booklady!!

Yes!! I only knew because you posted the info a couple of weeks ago and I'm yearning to go. I've only read one of Poncela's other plays and also some of Vallejo's. It would be so great, especially 'aire libre' ufff.
It's not so impossible neither, just that work is getting in the way booo. jeje

I suppose an impossible fantasy would be to watch a corrida en Las Ventas, where the toro is the matador and the torrero is the toro and for the toro torrero (if you know what i mean) looks for me in the crowd makes eye contact bows in my honour and procedes to do the deed. lol. Now that would be guay.
I just love those Toro movida comic T-shirts!!

I'm a member of La Real Academia Española, and I have a spacious apartment just round the corner overlooking El Retiro (I walk to work). I am a season ticket holder with Real Madrid, paid for by the Academia, who require me (once every five years) to report on any significant changes in football vocabulary during that period.

When not actively engaged in these duties, I return to my family villa, south of Granada, in the hills behind the Costa Tropical.

El B! You have been thinking about this haven't you!!!!
My fantasy it to have a piso in the Asturias neighborhood large enough to have my friends and family visit on a regular basis. And to have enough time and stamina to be able to stay out late each night and still get up early enough to enjoy the cool morning in Retiro!!

Great reponses! What I really want to read though, is MadridMans Fantasy! Anyone else want to hear it?

hey everybody

I do! I do!

I would be sitting in an arm chair basking under the warm glow of the setting sun while covered in palmeras. :p

Well lemme change that. I'd like to have a loft duplex apartment in the Salamanca district outfitted with the latest and greatest hardwood floors and home entertainment system. I'd be standing on a balcony eating a bocadillo while a cool Madrid evening breeze blows by me.

And I would just settle - so happily - to be there!!!!!!! Preferably w/ a flat in the city even on a part time basis - and live permantly in the south - or vice versa!!!!!

I live the madrid fantasy everyday but I'd need a buddy!!!!

My fantasy is my life.

We live in Colmenar Viejo, just half-an-hour from Madrid.

I have the most wonderful wife in the world, and ditto for our daughter and son (who are out on their own!).

I am an artist painting those beautiful señoritas (¿Desnudo? ¡Claro!), and anything else I wish.

We have wonderful gypsy/flamenco/torerro/artist friends with whom we party and share our lives.

We have THE best landlords, who live below us. They are our best friends!

I am fortunate enough to be a member of the best site on the www: MadridMan.com, and to know his Madridness personally,

AND

you know what? YOUR dreams can come true here TOO!

My Madrid fantasy would actually TO BE in the city itself, let the rest come to life.