Flying Cigar – A Cigar Travel Blog

The day before we left to spend a few days at Hector Luis’ farm Cuban friends informed us of the Paris terror attacks. Yannick and I were totally disconnected from information in Havana so we decided to spend an hour the next day at the Melia Cohiba cigar lounge to watch the terrible news with Read more…

A wonderful and impressive cigar week end in Belgium and the Netherlands sharing with good friends. It started Friday noon when I arrived in Overijse at De Kelle, an amazingly interesting store with a wide selection of books, comics and … cigars. Yes, both Cuban and Non-Cuban cigars in a very well kept walk-in humidor Read more…

I have always enjoyed Salih Dalay’s you tube channel and his relaxed, unorthodox and highly interesting videos, so when he contacted me asking for an interview, I immediately agreed. But for this interview, being for his newly started Connoisseurs Corner, he wanted a special, rare vintage cigar, so not having cigars in that range himself Read more…

It’s been a good cigar week, or rather month – naw, make that a good cigar year so far. Funny how every week brings some kind of cigar event or trip or just a day enjoyed with an especially good cigar. We had the usual 13-day routine of the pharmacy cigar event and Walter had Read more…

I received a series of most professional and impressive photographs taken by fellow cigar lover Viktor Enns during Sr Fidel Segui’s visit to Dalay Cigars in Saarbrücken. He also kindly took a portrait of Fidel with me of which I am proud. I believe that these photographs do justice to the art of rolling cigars Read more…

I had my first RA 898 ER Alemania a few days ago when I picked up a few boxes at Dalay Cigars LCDH Saarbrücken ( and helped some friends get their hands on them as well ). I loved it. From the get-go. Great flavours, construction, burn, progression, potential – all inside. And then, when Read more…

OK, so these boxes were over a year late in arriving. With the corresponding big hype. And big expectations too. And when they finally hit Germany, the first batch of 500 boxes was distributed in small doses. They basically “evaporated” like rain in the desert … I was told by a merchant that his 50 Read more…