Trip Ideas - 14 days away - Begin / End in Holland - no motorways and avoid main roads - GPX route - wanted

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Hi Guys

Im looking for some ideas for a 14 day trip starting from Amsterdam 15th May and retuning via Rotterdam. on the 28th May Will be solo ( billy nae mates) on a Kawasaki SX1000.

Happy to do 7 hour days on the bike - staying at prebooked hotels or B&B. Want to avoid motorways/ tolls, main roads where possible - but happy to do this on first and last days to make up some miles if required .

I have done the Austrian / Swiss/ German alps the last 2 years - so looking for something different.

Would be happy - either having a good base for a few nights - and doing daytrips - or different location each night.

Thanks in advance :DD

bill

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I have edited your title to hopefully make it clear what you want / would like.

Richard
 
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Thanks - I will have a look at that - have you done that trip? If so dont suppose you have a GPX file ?

Thanks
 
If you decide to go east again you should include the Vercors region on the way out & the Ardennes region on the way back.
 
East from the port towards Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, then whatever way back to the ferry. Choose small roads and you'll go through some great areas, many very rural, basic and worth visiting.
The west of the Czech republic in the Little Switzerland area is especially worth a visit, as is Auschwitz a few days later.
 
I would head into Germany. Up to the Baltic coast. Along the coast to Rugen island. Curve right, down to Berlin / Dresden. Then return on the diagonal. Or maybe continue down a bit to Passau / Czech Republic and then come back across Germany on the diagonal to Holland.

Or I’d go to France and lap it, going around the edge.

Or I’d go to the former Yugoslavia / Balkans / Greece.

Or I’d buy a map and draw a bloody big circle on it, centred on the port of arrival. Within that circle, I’d decide what to do, preferably avoiding places I’d already been to.

Here’s one with a circle with a radius of 1,000 miles, centred on Amsterdam:

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The world (or at least the main chunk of Europe) really is your lobster.
 
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Barnoe said:
You could always go North East through Denmark over to Sweden and Norway, down Finland and back across Estonia, Latvia Lithuania, Poland, Germany etc

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With 14 days to do it in, it might be more of a marathon, than a holiday though. Then again, some love a bit of endurance riding. I do know one such bloke from waaaaay up north…
 
How about heading to Balkans via the Czech, then into Slovakia, Hungary and so on. You can cut a fair old bit distance wise if you wish to revisit Austria.
 
Beebarron said:
Thanks - I will have a look at that - have you done that trip? If so dont suppose you have a GPX file ?

Thanks
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Like you i have done western and eastern Europe, so that route would be new to me and something i plan on doing.
so unfortunately no GPX file

Also it might be just a bit too long for 14 days though and wouldn't leave much time for off the bike walks
a Norwegian and Swedish loop back to Denmark might be easier time wise
 
I see that post #12 includes Austria. Whilst the OP has been to Austria, he might not have been to the places the route embraces. If though he has, it’ll be time to think outside of the box. Download as many of the daily sub-divided routes as might be of interest. For example, the early part takes the rider up to the north German coast and the Baltic, on to Stralsund and Germany’s largest island, before curving down to Brandenburg, to the west of Berlin. Brandenburg is surrounded by lakes.

He’d now have been travelling in what was, until 1989, in the former East Germany. Not so many people have been there on a motorbike, everyone travelling southwards to the Black Forest and the Alps of Austria. The OP then has a choice or choices:

A. Continue using the web page for the full 14 days, which is easy.

B. Cutting it short at some point, to dig around as to what else might be possible. For instance, going to Berlin. Whilst it’s easy to say: “I don’t do cities”, Berlin is a fantastic city to visit. Maybe go there on the train and have a day off the bike? There again, if you have passed a motorcycle test, you should not be frightened of riding in a city.

The German section has lots of ideas on routes and Germany is a big place. Similarly, the internet is full of ideas to borrow or steal and surfing is free. Use what you borrow or steal to create a holiday….. but do buy a map. For example:

Mecklenburg - ‘Lake district’- north west of Berlin

This website might be useful for people looking for ideas. It translates well into English. https://motorrad-mecklenburg.de Tap around in it. You can’t break it. A bit more surfing around in Google, just using a search of three words: ‘Mecklenburg Motorrad Touren’ brings up this site...
www.ukgser.com

Tap around in the website, you can’t break it.

Here’s something else. Go to this website:

Tour-Datenbank

www.tourenfahrer.de www.tourenfahrer.de

Zoom in on the map. Tap around on the little ‘marker points’, which will open up routes from the magazine. See how some of them might be of interest. Keep tapping around, it won’t break, you’ll soon get the hang of how it works. Then use your imagination as to what might make a good holiday for you.
 
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Slovenia is a hidden gem and while you’re there you can take advantage of being out of season and ride a few, gorgeous, Croatian coastal roads for a couple of days.
We never like long blast’s home so I would get the motorway stints out of the way early - you can get to Slovenia in, just about, 2 days from Amsterdam.
Return via the Italian Alps and lakes, the Black Forest and Ardennes - depending on time. Or ride down to Greece and get the ferry back up to Venice???
The beauty of travelling alone is you’ve got no one else to worry about so you can push the distance to get somewhere a little different. We have ridden down to Greece and back in a little over 3 weeks, camping and taking our time.
 
Beebarron said:
Hi Guys

Im looking for some ideas for a 14 day trip starting from Amsterdam 15th May and retuning via Rotterdam. on the 28th May Will be solo ( billy nae mates) on a Kawasaki SX1000.

Happy to do 7 hour days on the bike - staying at prebooked hotels or B&B. Want to avoid motorways/ tolls, main roads where possible - but happy to do this on first and last days to make up some miles if required .
Would be happy - either having a good base for a few nights - and doing daytrips - or different location each night.
Thanks in advance :DD
bill
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Bill
We did this route last year, maybe some of it may be of interest, some really good B&B's.
Would definitely recommend a visit to the Louwman Museum in the Hauge.... https://www.louwmanmuseum.nl/en/

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Unfortunately you’re early in the year which means it’s going to be a bit variable if you go a long way up into Norway or Sweden so I’d do a lap of the Baltic but rather than loop over the top of the Gulf of Bothnia I’d use a ferry from Sweden to Finland then over into Talinn.

If you’re making good time you can keep going south after Lithuania and head for the Carpathians and just look at the weather forecast each day and plan accordingly.

Getting a big day in straight after getting off the ferry is boring but you can be right up at the top end of Denmark in time for dinner then decide whether to cross into Norway or Sweden for the second day. I’ve done it and if you’re alone planning ahead becomes irrelevant and you just drift along going wherever looks good for the next day.
 
I would consider HARZ forest/mountains and Czech Republic...

and the Czech Republic is fab! A direct route from Karlovy Vary to Cesky Krumlov is spot-on, and the towns themselves are lovely
 
Like many, I usually rode quickly from Ijmuiden ferry to get into Germany pronto.

I did stop at little Arnhem museum (Bridge Too Far) and the Oosterbeek museum (WW2 HQ house).

As a WW2 history fan, I was happy when I discovered the following 3 points of interest.

(Sorry if it’s not your thing)
  1. Overloon WW2 Museum - lots of vehicles and memorabilia
Museumpark 1, 5825 AM Overloon

https://www.oorlogsmuseum.nl/en/

2. Modern museum - full of Netherlands military history.
Nationaal Militair Museum
Verlengde Paltzerweg 1, 3768 MX Soest, Netherlands

https://www.nmm.nl/nl/collectie/

3. Guy Gibson (Dam Buster) & Jim Warwick graves Steenbergen

https://maps.app.goo.gl/M7YuT6aduDdJpwFZ9?g_st=ic

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