Quote Originally Posted by Vladimir
I have been known to rock occasionally, yes. But this week I left the rocking to Verdi who did a much better job of it. To get in the mood I had an aperitif at the Café Métropole, which isn't half as posh as it looks and twice as nice. Apart from the superb fittings and trimmings, there are signatures, sketches and menu-card doodles of Toscanini, Sarah Bernhard, Arthur Rubinstein behind little glass plates on the walls.