On first sight Łódź looks frighteningly similar to the upturned contents of a rubbish bin. And though her aesthetic glories are not obvious, they’re certainly there to anyone daring enough to look under her skirt. Dotted around the city are a swathe of parks – thirty in total - some of global renown, others forgotten by everyone except the local tramps. But with some 2,378 hectares of forest within the city limits this town rates as one of the greenest in Poland, and there’s no better time than summer to enjoy it all.