City Parks

21 Nov 2010 - Lonely Planet has published a Top Ten of city parks. The argument goes that it is all nice and well to be working on the - let's say - 34th floor of your air-conditioned office building, but the question is if we really now what the world out there, and in particular nature out there, is all about. Most office workaholics would not really care, so it is good to know that the city park is just around the corner in most urban jungles. No surprise but the list is topped by New York's Central Park. It's iconic, endearing and cinematic, and shady lanes and strawberry fields (forever). London has St. James's Park and Paris has the Jardin du Luxembourg. The list goes on with Sdney, Beijing, Singapore and Barcelona mentioned, but what about Amsterdam's Vondelpark. Maybe it's on the small side to make the list, but it has everything a good city park needs to offer. So maybe not in the Lonely Planet Top Ten, but my number eleven.