Photo: londondrum.comUseful things to know before your visit
Address: Neal’s Yard, Entrances in Monmouth Street and Shorts Garden, Covent Garden WC2
How much time do you need?
A typical visit to Neal’s Yard takes 10 minutes.
Which buses go to Neal’s Yard?
Bus routes 14, 19, 24, 29, 38, 134, 176 and 242 all stop close by.
Which is the closest train station?
The nearest station is Covent Garden on the Piccadilly line. It only takes three minutes to walk to Neal’s Yard.
Which other attractions are nearby?
These attractions are all within 15 minutes walk of Neal’s Yard: Covent Garden, Transport Museum, Chinatown, British Museum, Leicester Square, National Portrait Gallery, National Gallery, Sir John Soane’s Museum, Courtauld Gallery, Trafalgar Square, Piccadilly Circus, Hunterian Museum, Nelson’s Column, Benjamin Franklin House and Cleopatra’s Needle.
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The first time you wander down here you’ll find yourself in a world of tangerine, lemon and lime green paint. It’s just a tiny little courtyard really, but all of the shops are painted in ridiculously happy colours and it always reminds me of those tribes they find in the Amazon rainforest, staring up at the airplanes in the National Geographic. Neal’s Yard is exactly the same as that (sort of) but instead of neanderthals from 10,000 BC it’s full of hippies from the 1960s. But where is everybody today? It’s totally deserted this morning.
Photo: londondrum.comI’m trying to cast my mind back to the last time I saw a hippie… and I mean a real hippy. Do they even exist anymore? I’m thinking of those skinny dudes who smoke stinky cigarettes and strum sunflower songs on their acoustic guitar. The kind of groovy dudes who lived in San Francisco. I haven’t seen a genuine one for ages – maybe all of that free love and drugs wiped them out. Either that or they’re still in bed. I don’t suppose many hippies get out of bed before noon.
Photo: londondrum.comOrganic food, health and beauty shops
The shops in Neal’s Yard are pretty hippy, too… they’re all health and beauty shops selling coconut this and avocado that. They sell food from Peru, Timbuktu, and stuff sourced from the mountains, volcanos, caves and waves… they’ve got seaweed to eat, nettle shampoo, bamboo… put it this way: it’s not the kind of place where you can do your weekly shop. Not unless you want to eat lentils and dried peas all week.
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Bec I visited here last year and tried to find it again today and I couldn’t find it! It took me ten minutes walking up and down the streets until I did eventually manage to find the entrance (which was well signposted, duh!) and I’m glad to say it hasn’t changed a bit from how I remember it. (reply)
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