Nha Trang, Vietnam.... Again

Just went for a long weekend in Nha Trang. This is the second time this year we have been but its very nice and not too far from Ho Chi Minh City. We booked into a nice hotel and got a free upgrade to a very nice room. I think the pictures below show how great it was. We had amazing views from the bedroom and bathroom.

Bedroom view

Bed view

Bathroom view

We also looked around the old part of town which is one of the few places where the locals have not been kicked out by property developers and still resembles old Vietnam.

We also went to a skybar on the top of our hotel which offered great views of the city.

We spent most of the time relaxing on the beach which as usual was nice and quiet.

End of Darts season

Since February I've been playing darts again every week. Sadly, its not been a very good season and unfortunately my team 'the tavern' have been relegated. Its a tough division and a big jump up from division 2. 

As you can see my personal statistics are very disappointing and I probably didn't help our bid to stay up. I've got battered most weeks and only won one match. It doesn't help that I don't practice as much as I used to. I did improve as the season went on though.

It's still really good fun and perhaps a season in Division 2 will be good for us. The new season doesn't start until late this year so lots of time to enjoy the summer and get some practice in.

My first solo home brewed beer

After being showed how to brew beer by my German friend earlier this year and being a bit nervous about going through the whole process without any help, a few weeks ago I finally brewed some beer on my own. Overall it wasn't too difficult and I remembered how to do it pretty well. I made a few errors a long the way but generally it went okay.

Yesterday we opened our first beer. The below photo shows this event.

So, how did it taste? It was okay. Not bad but not as great as the batch I had before. It's very drinkable. Also it was a bit cloudy. We may have been premature in opening it as the flavor should improve over the next few weeks and we haven't left it in the fridge for a week yet. It has a good pop sound to it and was well carbonated.

Above is the beer in the glass. I'm in the process of getting some more ingredients so I can brew another batch in the next month. Practice makes perfect as they say.