10 things to do in London when you escaped from the office for 3 days

1/ Rent a scooter near the Waterloo train station (don't mention you're French otherwise they'll laugh at you and you will be forced to recall for Austerlitz memory)
2/ Drive straight down to Westminster to see the House of Parliament, the Big Wheel, the Big Ben, the Big Mamma etc. (if a beautiful Russian tourist asks you "Is this the Thames river", pretend not to know and start a friendly chat)
3/ Go to the National Gallery (because your favorite painters are Canaletto and Turner, and basically, no museum has both of them except the National Gallery)
4/ Go to Leicester square and buy tickets for tonight musicals (don't pay by credit card or they will charge you extra 2£)
5/ Enjoy the Phantom of the Opera at Her Majesty's Theater (try the cookie - caramel butter ice cream during the entract: it is fantastic)
6/ At Madame Tussaud's, try to search for your own wax statue (if you find it, call me, I'll ask you for an autograph)
7/ At Tate Britain, try to search something else than a Turner painting (if you find one, don't call me, I'm not interested)
8/ Take the ferry from Tate Britain to Tate Modern (try to avoid sitting at the same place as a French group of teenager tourists. Why? You ask me why?)
9/ Enjoy "STOMP" at the Vaudeville (Book for the F raw, they will put you at C row with the best view ever)
10/ Stop at a cybercafé and show off to your friends by sending them emails and pictures.

A master composer is born

Je vous présente Schubert, le chat savant. Il joue du piano à merveille, notamment les partitions ardues pour 4 mains, et brille dans les aigües lors de ses envolées lisztiennes. Il jongle entre dièses, bémols et autres accords diminués empruntés à la gamme pentatonique d'une ère révolue, et pousse même l'insolence musicale jusqu'à accompagner ses interprétations d'un vocal dont je qualifierais la tessiture de soprano.

Les critiques sont unanimes. Schubert révolutionne le genre, de ses doigts prestes et agiles, il offre une version quasi-bestiale des Lieder, une vision féline de la Valse Minute, une lecture animale des Tableaux d'une exposition, et, pour résumer son oeuvre, exprime avec nonchalence sa compréhension très Kantienne de l'art pianistique réduit à forme la plus épurée.

Der Katzklavierspieler bin ich ja
Steht lustig heissa hopsa sa
Der Katzklavierspieler bin bekannt
Beim Alt und Jung im ganzen Land