BIKE RIDE TO UNTERER DOSSENWALD PARK
The tram people are on strike again for today, tomorrow and the next day.  They want a 7% raise.  I don't have to go to town so it is OK.  Steve on the other hand had an appointment with customers near Frankfurt so luckily, there is a friend of ours who has a car who took him to the main train station early this morning.  The main lines are not affected by this strike.  So since the weather is warm, sunny and full of Spring, I rode by bike for about 6 hours.  I didn't go all that far, but I stopped to enjoy the views, take pictures, read signs, and most often to keep looking at my maps so I wouldn't get too lost.  I love seeing how fast things are growing.  You can almost see the leaves on the trees growing.  Everything is turning green and so many flowers are blooming.   I rode about 23 miles (round trip) south to another wild park.  This park has mainly dirt paths through the forest.  I saw a few people now and then but I felt like I was the only one in the forest most of the time.

The path I took, approximately, by selecting points with google maps.

On the way down I saw another one of the serve yourself flower plots.

the sign translates to:

Tulips can be cut when one recognizes the Color of flower in the bud. 

But also keep already see long blooming tulips in the vase.

You can cut the flower stems at the bottom.

Tulips growing in the vase for a few centimeters.

.45 cents a piece

I didn't know there are so many kinds of tulips

These are really unusual 

Also I saw this really hairy cow.

I don't know if he can see out.
He also has a nose ring.
That is probably why he has his tongue in his nostril!

The Unterer Dossenwald Park

The park is pretty large, with a few paved bike paths (no cars), and MANY dirt paths.

This park has enclosures for the wild pigs.   Kafertal park also has many other animals, this one just has the pigs.

People come and put food scraps in there for them.

The paths are so nice,  almost all of them look just like this, for miles and miles.  People ride horse's here too but I only saw one horse.

The one horse I saw wasn't being ridden, it was just walking with its owner.

LUNCH

It isn't as big as it looks.

On the way back I saw one of the orchards near our place that I thought was grape vines but it now has all these white flowers so I think it must be another kind of fruit.

I wonder what kind of fruit this will be.
Turns out they were apples.