Day 92

Checked out of the Azura Hotel at 11:45am and wandered over to the Home Vu Apartments where I will be staying for one week but before that I got up at 5:30 and walked to the beach with the camera and made a few photos of the sun rising over VinPearl Island and then I worked 30 minutes on the pull up and dip bars. Bought an egg sandwich on french bread for breakfast and then packed my things and waited for check out. When I arrived at Home Vu at noon I was expecting to drop my bag off and have to wait until 3:00pm but I spent more of my good karma when the reception lady allowed me to check in when I arrived, I tried to pay her 20,000d but she refused. After unpacking I decided to find VinMart, supposedly the only western style grocery in downtown Nha Trang, before arriving there I was stopped on the street by a man named Minh who was a tour guide and I thought of Vincent in Sanur but Nha Trang is more populated so I don't expect to be seeing much of Minh during my week here. At VinMart I bought pasta and sauce and a few other things and the total cost was higher than my daily average but when arriving in a new city initial costs are going to be higher. When I returned to the apartment I made a delicious pasta meal but not before having to learn how to use an induction stove, which I figured out through watching a couple of youtube videos, without the internet I probably would have given up and gone out to eat because I would not have figured out that I need to keep my finger pressed on the on/off button for five seconds.

My apartment at HomeVu is decent, it has a large table which is convenient for chess study and I am looking forward to the HD Bank International Chess Tournament which is ten days away, March 7-13.