16 Dec
This trip was so awesome that I didn’t have the time to visit Hector Luis at his farm. Instead we arranged for lunch and cigars meeting in Havana. He was there with his lovely wife invited to attend the Friday Gala dinner of the Partagas Encuentro. So next day, Saturday, Yannick and I were Read more…
15 Dec
A small gathering of the usual suspects at John DeCosta’s palatial Casa in Miramar – we happened to be neighbours, so we met a few more times. Great fun, yummy snacks by Espacios, good cigars, everyone brought some excellent rum along plus the chance to meet and greet some of the Havana regulars. Changed into Read more…
14 Dec
I really, truly enjoyed meeting my Canadian buddies again, good to see Buddha, long time no see the big man, missed mon red-haired frere Simon, greeted new good guys Khal and Peter, great to have my lil’ blond brother John at the camera controls again, wish I had spent more time with Brother Bear’s Read more…
11 Dec
My Cuban routine is to spend time with my friends there, as much as possible. The rollers, the tabaqueros, the tobacco planters, the shopkeepers and the humidor artists. So it was a pleasure to meet up with Jose Ernesto Aguilera, his assistant Alex and his team again and see the work in progress as Read more…
10 Dec
Talk about Lady Luck – it had been a cool, rainy and terribly windy day in Havana but the Partagas Welcome Night held in the open at the historic Plaza de Armas caught the exact dry time frame for the two and a half hours the show and dinner lasted. I had booked it Read more…
8 Dec
I had enough fun with Reza in Dublin at the AmiCigar meeting there to last me for a while. I thought. We shared some great cigars but the main memory is the fun we had. He is truly a crazy, warm-hearted guy. Well, mostly. How crazy can you be to drive over from Antwerp, Read more…
