Europeans and their parks

There seemed to a lot more parks in Europe than there are in the US.  In the middle of Interlaken there was a small park surrounded by big buildings.  It looked out of place, but was a testimony to the importance of parks.  In Vienna one park was lined completely with benches.  There must have been 150 benches in this busy park…I wish I had taken a picture.  The park was located right in downtown and therefore must be very busy.

A lot of the parks have fun things to do in them too.  For example one park had a large chess board while another had fun balancing things (see photos).

The public spaces were also kept very clean.  Everyday street sweepers would make sure any messes were cleaned up.  While this happens in the US, it doesn't seem to happen as often.  I had heard that Paris is somewhat of a dirty city, but I felt like Paris was fairly clean given the large amount of people in the city.  Yes there was some graffiti in some of the Metro's, but I would often also see clean-up crews removing the graffiti.