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.