Around Hardtwald - on Regionalpark Rhein-Main cycling lanes

Bicycle: 15 km 

Riding time: 1:05 h
Total ascent: 150 m
Avg speed: 13.8 km/h
Route: Around Hardtwald
Weather: Cloudy and cold, but no rain

Today after some last minute Xmas shopping I had exactly the time for a small loop around my parents house on my fathers bicycle. A very strange bicycle with 3 brakes! 2 hand brakes but also a coaster brake. Plus the seat post has a suspension which makes that one sits on the bicycle and then sags in... it takes some time getting used to it. But well, it is a bicycle. 

Today I took it up into the small forest and then to the right following (initially) a cycling path that circumnavigates once Bad Homburg. I had done nearly the entire loop in the summer this year, but failed to find the indications in Ober Erlenbach, so ended up in Seulberg and then from there back home. Today I started the otherway round and it was much better indicated and I found my way to Ober Erlenbach. Once there however, I didn't really want to ride into the village, but took this picture instead:

And then continued on through the fields around Seulberg and Friedrichsdorf. There is a cycling lane system, Regional Park Rhein-Main, which while it doesn't really say where the round trip goes to, it is very efficiently indicated with these white stripes on the road... 

... and sometimes also some indications.

Additionally throughout there are indications of directions, similar to the Netherlands. 

What isn't similar to the Netherlands is the gradient.