Moderators: bwgood77, lilfishi22, Qwigglez
PerkinsFor3 wrote:Slim Charless wrote:PerkinsFor3 wrote:When will the draft be held?
I'm gonna be in Europe for about 3 weeks so hopefully it'll be after that lol. Sometime the 2nd week of October would be ideal
Where are you going in Europe?
PerkinsFor3 wrote:Cool! Rotterdam is my hometown. Let me know if you need some suggestions.
sunskerr wrote:Draft is usually 14 days before the season starts. Puts us at like October 8th. So hopefully that works for you Slim. Probably can push it back by like 2-3 days if necessary, maybe a few more. We do the draft late as possible to account for injuries/preseason/new information.
Safe and happy traveling violations Slim!
Slim Charless wrote:PerkinsFor3 wrote:Cool! Rotterdam is my hometown. Let me know if you need some suggestions.
Definitely might take you up on that lol. My buddy's wife is Dutch and her sister still lives there, but she has kids and can't exactly be bothered. I've done a little research and still have time to do more. But I appreciate you offering.
PerkinsFor3 wrote:Slim Charless wrote:PerkinsFor3 wrote:Cool! Rotterdam is my hometown. Let me know if you need some suggestions.
Definitely might take you up on that lol. My buddy's wife is Dutch and her sister still lives there, but she has kids and can't exactly be bothered. I've done a little research and still have time to do more. But I appreciate you offering.
Shoot me a DM if you want specific pointers. Make sure to reserve a Watertaxi trip from where ever is convenient (preferably as far eastward as possible) to the SS Rotterdam and grab dinner on Katendrecht or Kop van Zuid. Watertaxi is the best way to see the city. Boymans museum is fun if youre into art. Could combine with Kunsthal for modern art. Daytrip to Delft is fun, too. Hotel New York, Ono Rotterdam, or for more casual setting, Foodhalln on Kop van Zuid are all good for food.
Slim Charless wrote:PerkinsFor3 wrote:Slim Charless wrote:
Definitely might take you up on that lol. My buddy's wife is Dutch and her sister still lives there, but she has kids and can't exactly be bothered. I've done a little research and still have time to do more. But I appreciate you offering.
Shoot me a DM if you want specific pointers. Make sure to reserve a Watertaxi trip from where ever is convenient (preferably as far eastward as possible) to the SS Rotterdam and grab dinner on Katendrecht or Kop van Zuid. Watertaxi is the best way to see the city. Boymans museum is fun if youre into art. Could combine with Kunsthal for modern art. Daytrip to Delft is fun, too. Hotel New York, Ono Rotterdam, or for more casual setting, Foodhalln on Kop van Zuid are all good for food.
My buddies wife mentioned the Delft for dinner and some drinks. That water taxi sounds like an awesome idea and I'll for sure give that a try. I've also heard the Erasmus Bridge might be good for dinner? She mentioned that as well. Im into art and will take a look at those museums. Looking forward to this as it's been roughly a decade since I've been in Europe lol. I assume it's not too cold this early in the autumn season....?
Slim Charless wrote:PerkinsFor3 wrote:Slim Charless wrote:
I'm gonna be in Europe for about 3 weeks so hopefully it'll be after that lol. Sometime the 2nd week of October would be ideal
Where are you going in Europe?
Rotterdam, Antwerp, Tallinn and Brussels. I'm gonna try and fit Amsterdam in there as well. My 1st time to all cities. I've been to Europe a few times but Italy and London mostly.
PerkinsFor3 wrote:Slim Charless wrote:PerkinsFor3 wrote:
Shoot me a DM if you want specific pointers. Make sure to reserve a Watertaxi trip from where ever is convenient (preferably as far eastward as possible) to the SS Rotterdam and grab dinner on Katendrecht or Kop van Zuid. Watertaxi is the best way to see the city. Boymans museum is fun if youre into art. Could combine with Kunsthal for modern art. Daytrip to Delft is fun, too. Hotel New York, Ono Rotterdam, or for more casual setting, Foodhalln on Kop van Zuid are all good for food.
My buddies wife mentioned the Delft for dinner and some drinks. That water taxi sounds like an awesome idea and I'll for sure give that a try. I've also heard the Erasmus Bridge might be good for dinner? She mentioned that as well. Im into art and will take a look at those museums. Looking forward to this as it's been roughly a decade since I've been in Europe lol. I assume it's not too cold this early in the autumn season....?
There's only a Erasmus Bridge dinner if you bring your take-away food onto the brdige haha. But at the south end of the bridge you have the place I mentioned; "Kop van Zuid" with a bunch of good options.
It's quite bad right now, weather wise. 13 degrees celcius and pouring rain. I'm actually states-side right now, but my gf been sending me videos.
Site for watertaxi: https://www.watertaxirotterdam.nl/
You have any specific cuisines you really like?
TASTIC wrote:Slim Charless wrote:PerkinsFor3 wrote:Where are you going in Europe?
Rotterdam, Antwerp, Tallinn and Brussels. I'm gonna try and fit Amsterdam in there as well. My 1st time to all cities. I've been to Europe a few times but Italy and London mostly.
Wife and I did an overnight ferry booze cruise to Tallinn, was great fun!
Slim Charless wrote:PerkinsFor3 wrote:Slim Charless wrote:
My buddies wife mentioned the Delft for dinner and some drinks. That water taxi sounds like an awesome idea and I'll for sure give that a try. I've also heard the Erasmus Bridge might be good for dinner? She mentioned that as well. Im into art and will take a look at those museums. Looking forward to this as it's been roughly a decade since I've been in Europe lol. I assume it's not too cold this early in the autumn season....?
There's only a Erasmus Bridge dinner if you bring your take-away food onto the brdige haha. But at the south end of the bridge you have the place I mentioned; "Kop van Zuid" with a bunch of good options.
It's quite bad right now, weather wise. 13 degrees celcius and pouring rain. I'm actually states-side right now, but my gf been sending me videos.
Site for watertaxi: https://www.watertaxirotterdam.nl/
You have any specific cuisines you really like?
I live in Hawaii, so I am partial to seafood, but I'm open to trying any of the local dishes. Fried food, meats, desserts, etc, etc. Thanks for that link to the taxi service btw, their map/site is well done and pretty easy to navigate-even if you don't speak Dutch, like me. I see that the stops are some of the areas I wanna go. Which makes sense seeing those are probably the popular spots for tourists lol.
I'm used to dressing in layers so I'll have to continue that trend for this trip, which is no problem. I'm staying at the Hilton so hopefully it's closer to the water taxi, but I have no problem doing some walking. It looks like there's a number of good fried dishes to try while I'm there-which will be awesome
Slim Charless wrote:TASTIC wrote:Slim Charless wrote:
Rotterdam, Antwerp, Tallinn and Brussels. I'm gonna try and fit Amsterdam in there as well. My 1st time to all cities. I've been to Europe a few times but Italy and London mostly.
Wife and I did an overnight ferry booze cruise to Tallinn, was great fun!
Yeah, living out here as long as I have I've actually gotten to know a lot of Estonians previously they were all super cool. I'll only be there for a weekend but that should be a great time I imagine. What time of the year were you guys there for?
PerkinsFor3 wrote:Slim Charless wrote:PerkinsFor3 wrote:
There's only a Erasmus Bridge dinner if you bring your take-away food onto the brdige haha. But at the south end of the bridge you have the place I mentioned; "Kop van Zuid" with a bunch of good options.
It's quite bad right now, weather wise. 13 degrees celcius and pouring rain. I'm actually states-side right now, but my gf been sending me videos.
Site for watertaxi: https://www.watertaxirotterdam.nl/
You have any specific cuisines you really like?
I live in Hawaii, so I am partial to seafood, but I'm open to trying any of the local dishes. Fried food, meats, desserts, etc, etc. Thanks for that link to the taxi service btw, their map/site is well done and pretty easy to navigate-even if you don't speak Dutch, like me. I see that the stops are some of the areas I wanna go. Which makes sense seeing those are probably the popular spots for tourists lol.
I'm used to dressing in layers so I'll have to continue that trend for this trip, which is no problem. I'm staying at the Hilton so hopefully it's closer to the water taxi, but I have no problem doing some walking. It looks like there's a number of good fried dishes to try while I'm there-which will be awesome
You should have a field day visiting a local 'snackbar' then, which is basically deep fried snacks. Frikandel, Kroket, Kaassoufle, Bami Hap, Bitterballen are all typical Dutch haha. And Bram Ladage fries.
When you're in Delft, I can reccommend going to the "Visbanken" a fish store in the city centre, where you can try raw herring with onions (grab by tail and tilt head back while lowering fish into mouth taking bites is the local way of eating it), or "kibbeling" which is small chunks of fried fish.
If you want to splurge a bit and if youre without kids, theres an amazing michelin star restaurant just morth of Delft called 'de Ganzenhoef', where I can recommend booking the chefs table. Will set you back 450 euro for two 6 course meal, but the food is absolutely perfect.
Also make sure to visit a Surinamese (for example Warung Mini on Witte de with straat) and eat Roti or Saoto Soup, and Indonesian (Ab Halen in historic Delfshaven is terrific), as both cuisines are staples of our "local" food scene.
I can also highly recommend skipping any Poke Bowl joints in Europe.
TASTIC wrote:Slim Charless wrote:TASTIC wrote:Wife and I did an overnight ferry booze cruise to Tallinn, was great fun!
Yeah, living out here as long as I have I've actually gotten to know a lot of Estonians previously they were all super cool. I'll only be there for a weekend but that should be a great time I imagine. What time of the year were you guys there for?
We were there in February, was our 'Scanniversary'. Started in Tallinn, then to Helsinki, Stockholm, then Oslo, then back home to London. Was about 10 days all up
Slim Charless wrote:TASTIC wrote:Slim Charless wrote:
Yeah, living out here as long as I have I've actually gotten to know a lot of Estonians previously they were all super cool. I'll only be there for a weekend but that should be a great time I imagine. What time of the year were you guys there for?
We were there in February, was our 'Scanniversary'. Started in Tallinn, then to Helsinki, Stockholm, then Oslo, then back home to London. Was about 10 days all up
Ahh, you're from the UK? I'm missing the NFL football you guys get by 1 week lol. I was absolutely planning on making a brief trip to London if I could watch the NFL in the European environment and crowd.
TASTIC wrote:Slim Charless wrote:TASTIC wrote:We were there in February, was our 'Scanniversary'. Started in Tallinn, then to Helsinki, Stockholm, then Oslo, then back home to London. Was about 10 days all up
Ahh, you're from the UK? I'm missing the NFL football you guys get by 1 week lol. I was absolutely planning on making a brief trip to London if I could watch the NFL in the European environment and crowd.
Nah I'm in New Zealand, but lived in London for 3 years and Toronto just before that for a year. Love to travel
Slim Charless wrote:TASTIC wrote:Slim Charless wrote:
Ahh, you're from the UK? I'm missing the NFL football you guys get by 1 week lol. I was absolutely planning on making a brief trip to London if I could watch the NFL in the European environment and crowd.
Nah I'm in New Zealand, but lived in London for 3 years and Toronto just before that for a year. Love to travel
Yeah same. My girlfriend works for an airline, so whenever she gets a space free we love to fly lol. How do you like New Zealand? Auckland's actually next on the list, probably for my birthday in March.
