Fort de Battice
Belgische Festung.
Read about it on Wikipedia Photo: Vberger, Public domainFrom the Harwich ferry across the Netherlands to Monschau, then the Eifel hills to Adenau and the Nürburgring, down to the Mosel at Cochem, along the river to Bernkastel-Kues, and back over the Vulkaneifel.
At 150 to 300 miles a day, this is 3 to 5 days of riding. Set your own daily distance and add rest days.
Plotted by us, not yet ridden
Starts at Hook of Holland ferry port
Click a dot for details. White dots are the stops, each with a bed search. Yellow dots are places to see.
Measured on the route line from OpenStreetMap data, which can be missing or out of date. Curvature is degrees of turning a mile, measured every 100 metres. On our routes they run from 6 on the E19 to 701 on the SP638.
Pick the miles you like to ride in a day. Each day ends at the named place on the route nearest that distance, and you get a GPX file for each day.
This is your pace, not our estimate of how long the riding takes. Day lengths vary because each day ends at a named place.
This route starts where the boat or train lands at Hook of Holland. Book the bike as a motorcycle, not a car.
Split the route into days above and each day gets its own bed search for where it ends.
Back to the daysCheck your bike insurance covers riding abroad, get travel insurance that covers motorcycling at your engine size, and breakdown cover that recovers a motorcycle in every country on the route.
What to check before you buy coverWhat GOV.UK says riders need for it, checked 05/11/2026. Rules change, so read the official page before you go.
On every trip abroad: your licence, insurance that covers riding abroad, the V5C and travel insurance with medical cover. The tour planner turns all of this into a checklist each rider in your group can tick off.
Castles, passes, viewpoints and more within easy reach of the line, in the order you reach them. Yellow dots on the map.
Belgische Festung.
Read about it on Wikipedia Photo: Vberger, Public domain
Castle ruin.
Read about it on Wikipedia Photo: Thomas Hummel, CC BY-SA 4.0
Castle in Germany.
Read about it on Wikipedia Photo: Johannes Dörrstock, CC BY-SA 4.0
Fortification in Germany.
Photo: Holger Weinandt, CC BY-SA 3.0
Castle in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Photo: DooFi, CC BY-SA 3.0
Château.
Read about it on Wikipedia Photo: Killaars (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0
19th-20th century defence for Liège, Belgium.
Read about it on Wikipedia Photo: Festungsring_Luettich_Karte.png: Demis project derivative work: Grandiose (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0
19th-20th century defence for Liège, Belgium.
Read about it on Wikipedia Photo: Flamenc, CC BY-SA 3.0
Catholic monastery in Limburg, Belgium.
Read about it on Wikipedia Photo: Paul Hermans at Dutch Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0
Castle in Belgium.
Read about it on Wikipedia Photo: Marc Ryckaert (MJJR), CC BY-SA 3.0Place details from Wikidata. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each card.