MacKat in Ireland

Beheadings work better when the executioner is sober. No, we didn’t see any live beheadings, but we heard about lots of them on our tour of the Tower of London. The Tower is currently most famous for being the storage area for the Crown Jewels, but it’s got a lot more history than that. It […]

Tuesday night we had decided to see the fancier side of London around Picadilly circus and the West End.  To be honest, Picadilly Circus isn’t too impressive – it pales in comparison to Times Square in Manhattan.  A few blocks to the east, though, lies Leicester Square where the red carpet is rolled out for […]