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My favorite aspect about Berlin is the outdoor public space. Green space is abundant in the city, at least for someone that has come straight from living in the desert wasteland that is Los Angeles for four years. I still like LA for its proximity to a lot of wonderful natural landscapes but that's just it, you can't take a walk in LA, unless its on the beach. My first Airbnb in Berlin was in the middle of two parks, Volkspark Friedrichshain and Volkspark Prenzlauer Berg. Both of these parks were an example of Schuttberg, which is the German term for a hill made of rubble. After the war, Berlin was covered with mounds of rubble. The task of clearing the rubble and stacking it in piles fell on the women in Germany (called the Rubble Women) because of the loss of men during the war. One of the most infamous examples of Schuttberg in Berlin is Teufelsberg, which I unintentionally visited on my second day in Berlin. It’s not only a rubble mound that took 22 years to create but underneath it lies the unfinished Nazi training college designed by Albert Speer. Volkspark Friedrichshain      Soviet War Memorial in Treptower ParkNot all Soviet war memorials built by the East German government survived after the fall of the Berlin Wall but the one at Treptower park is one of three that did. The memorial is also a cemetery for the 7000 Red Army soldiers that fell during the war in 1945.    Mosaic covering the inside of the mausoleum       Humboldthain Flak TowerA Nazi flak tower peers through the trees at Humboldthain park north of Berlin. The flak tower,s ordered by Adolf Hitler, were built on top of World War II air-raid shelter in 1940.         Tempelhofer FeldThis is no ordinary park. Tempelhofer Feld park used to be Tempelhof Airport.    
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