'Where am I?'

THE London borough of Camden's flagship library, the Swiss Cottage library, is nowhere to be seen.
         That is, if you're wandering around Switzerland by mistake looking for it.
           I often wonder every time I mention the Swiss Cottage library I'm confusing my overseas readers.
           Britain is Britain and Switzerland is Switzerland. So what's Switzerland doing in Britain in the form of  a library in London?
           Simple. A couple of hundred years ago a novelty inn opened in the form of a Swiss cottage, so the inn was called Swiss Cottage. Many a place-name originates from a landmark, so the area when it expanded was called Swiss Cottage.
         You can still see the Switzerland in the public house there now, though it has surely been rebuilt several times. 
          Fifty years ago the road instead of the Cottage was rebuilt, so to speak, and now the Swiss Cottage stand on a large traffic island in the middle of a giant four-lane one-way road system, which winds around the drinkers, who sit indoors and out.
          The Swiss Cottage Library itself  is across the road, passed by one arm of the highway, but quietly inland, with a leisure centre and a community centre and luxury flats nearby.