Madrid bars don’t get much livelier or more fun than El Bonanno and attracts a young and trendy, jeans-and-T-shirt crowd, who spill out onto the street most afternoons and evenings. Men stand around the horseshoe-shaped bar at El Bonanno drinking beers and checking out the girls.

It’s the kind of place where everyone seems to know each other, and if they don’t to start with, they soon will. The décor is bright red and cheery, with arty posters on the walls, and there’s a rather novel way of distinguishing the men’s from the women’s lavatories (we’ll let you work it out for yourself).