Visiting Humidor Artist Jose Ernesto Aguilera

11 Dec

Another highlight experience of my last trip to Havana was to visit this great artist and human being, a humble man full of passion and dedication and an extraordinary friend. Jose Ernesto Aguilera Reina. http://www.humidorsofhavana.com/ I have known him for the last five years and followed his ascent into the zenith of the best humidor Read more…

Visiting Hector Luis Prieto with Rob Ayala and friends

9 Dec

  It’s cold, windy, lots of snow, a dark & dead German Sunday – what better moment to sit down to write down and select the pics for these sunny memories. I wholly agree with a Finnish friend’s comment on her FB page : Many people love snow. I find it an unnecessary freezing of Read more…

Picture Gallery Cigars

16 Oct

Hello, another fine job with Peter assisting me in creating and managing Picture Galleries on this platform. Easy really, but then again so easy that I couldn’t see the light at first – good laugh at how easy it is ! So all of my former Smoking Now post pictures of cigars, both Cuban and Read more…

Cuba Travel 2005 Picture Gallery

10 Oct

Hi all, just testing the waters here in this new WP system and getting acquainted with all the available gizmos. Thought I would upload a ton of pictures from my first Cuba trip back in 2005 to the Festival del Habano. Again – just testing, one, dos, tres …. Nino – Having fun !   Read more…

2012/04 – Cuba – The Remy Martin Louis XIII Tasting

11 Apr

The Louis XIII Tasting in Havana With Organizer Toby, center, and Jimmy Ng from Singapore April 2012 A tasting sponsored by Remy Martin and organized by Toby Brocklehurst of InCloud9, a Havana based British friend whose travel agency specializes in exclusive arrangements on the island. Remy Martin sent two fantastic “Ambassadeurs” in Anne-Laure and Alexandre, Read more…

2012/04 – Cuba – Fox Bros. Partagas 1972 Tasting

2 Apr

  Partagas 109 Seleccion Fox Nr 1 Knappogue Castle Single Malt Whiskey Havana, 28 Febr. 2012 Sponsored and organized by the Fox Brothers, Rob and Stuart, renowned cigar merchants in Dublin and London : www.jjfox.co.uk/blog/ www.jamesfox.ie/page.html?id=2&zenid=n59vdves3n6t2t5skqcejgnr06 and “instigators” of the now classic baseball match Cuban rollers vs International Cigar Nuts. This video shows the fun that was had Read more…