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Hook of Holland to the Eifel and Mosel

From 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.

Distance
600 miles (966 km)
Type
Loop
Where
Eifel

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.

Main roads

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From the map

Longest gap between fuel
33 miles
Fuel stations near the line
251
Curvature
79 ° a mile
Campsites within 2 km
117
  • The longest stretch with no fuel station within 1 km of the line runs from mile 310 to mile 343. Check it against your range with the fuel range calculator.
  • The twistiest 20 miles run from mile 280 to mile 300, at 267 degrees of turning a mile.
  • 31 motorcycle shops are within 3 km of the line.
  • More routes from this port.

Measured on the route line from OpenStreetMap data, which can be missing or out of date.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.

Before you go

  • The run across the Netherlands and to the German border is motorway. The good riding starts at Monschau.
  • Driving a lap of the Nürburgring Nordschleife is a separate paid ticket with its own rules. This route only passes it.
  • The Eifel is very popular with motorcyclists, and the police run frequent speed checks.

On the way

  1. Hook of Holland
  2. Monschau
  3. Bad Münstereifel
  4. Adenau
  5. Nürburg
  6. Treis-Karden
  7. Cochem
  8. Zell
  9. Traben-Trarbach
  10. Bernkastel-Kues
  11. Piesport
  12. Daun
  13. Monschau
  14. Hook of Holland

Split it into days

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.

Ready to ride it?

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1Getting there

This route starts where the boat or train lands at Hook of Holland. Book the bike as a motorcycle, not a car.

Compare every crossing

2Places to stay

Split the route into days above and each day gets its own bed search for where it ends.

Back to the days

3Cover

Check 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 cover

The country on this route

What GOV.UK says riders need for it, checked 05/11/2026. Rules change, so read the official page before you go.

Netherlands

Money
Euro
Ride on the
Right
  • Carry your licence, insurance documents, vehicle documents and photo ID such as your passport

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.

Places to see on the way

Castles, passes, viewpoints and more within easy reach of the line, in the order you reach them. Yellow dots on the map.

Burg Landshut
Castle · On the route

Burg Landshut

Castle in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Photo: DooFi, CC BY-SA 3.0

Place details from Wikidata. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each card.