Neals Yard in London.

London is crowded with tourists at any time of the year. Crowds of tourists, following in single file behind your guide, a backpackers with huge backpacks, exploring the old England on foot, the business delegation and party youth. Among this urban chaos, in the heart of the bourgeois Covent garden, one of the rare Islands of tranquility and alternative lifestyle was lost. Yard called Nils Yard.

Secret London garden

Nils Yard (Neal's Yard) — positive area always grey and cloudy London. Hanging flower baskets, ivy on the walls, bright coloring of ancient buildings, garlands of national flags hung around the yard. So a very cost-effective design tools, a festive atmosphere, but not noisy, and extremely homely and cosy. However, you will almost certainly pass by this splendor, if you have no idea where to find a tiny Nils Yard. Meanwhile, in this area there are world-famous shops of organic products, inexpensive cafes, bars, massage rooms, hair salons, book and souvenir shops, astrological salons, where you can get your horoscope in a few minutes.

Alternative thinking

Nils Yard didn't always look like that. At the time of Shakespearean England, there was a mini-market, where vegetables and fruits were traded. At the end of the XVII century, the master of the mint Thomas Neil, in whose honor the area got its name, engaged in the arrangement of the area. But, nevertheless, the yard continued to remain "second-rate". In the 70-ies of the last century of Nils Yard still looked depressing: black, to overflowing full of warehouses, which housed the workshops for the production of scenery for television and theatre. Found here a refuge and fake items to rehearsals for Royal ceremonies. Perhaps hidden within the iron walls of the warehouse atmosphere of art and influenced developer nick Sanders when he conceived the new look of the area. And after a couple of years, the Nils Yard gained a unique and unchanged form of alternative London to this day.

Here the cheese spirit, here smells of cheese!

First of all, self-taught designer Sanders opened a store "Dairy products", cafes and pharmacies specializing in homeopathy and alternative medicines. By the way, Nils-artovskie "Dairy products" for London — about the same as the restaurant, The Cheese Board Collective, Berkeley, California. The only difference is that the store in Nils Yard specializes exclusively in cheeses from the UK and Ireland, which are not inferior in taste to the famous competitors from France. In" Dairy products " are represented almost all dairies, both large and artisanal. Partly for this reason, the Nils Yard is visited annually by hundreds of thousands of United Kingdom residents who prefer to stroll around the courtyard, inhaling the cheesy flavor, looking at the huge cheese heads in the wall stacks and talking about a particular variety with sellers. Everyone who works here is very well aware of their product and is always happy to offer assistance in choosing. And there are always free tastings. As an added bonus — the bread is always crispy, airy, warm.

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