Although I am very much a city girl, happy to have everything close at hand, whether it be transport, or shops, or public services..., still nature is the one way to get straight back to my core-self.  I can un-load or
re-charge my batteries depending on what kind of day I had and there are a couple
of  wonderful parks around Antwerp.  Some are real city parks with stone
paths benches and garbage cans, but some are more like small
nature reserves, have dirt paths, no benches and no carbage

cans at all, to discourage people to eat, drink or bring any
garbage in to the park.

I prefer the latter

as it gives you a much better

contact with nature. There

are much more trees and leaves hanging
over the paths and much more wildlife to enjoy. 
As you can see in this picture of the Fort 4 park.