4 Jun
At this year’s Habano Festival the long overdue prize of Habano Man was awarded to Urs Portmann and he celebrated by the shore of Lake Constance with his family and a large group of friends and customers. In business now for well over 40 years and having stores in Kreuzlingen, St Gallen and Vaduz, the Read more…
9 May
While I have “parked my pen”, my friend Frank “Afficionado” sent me these notes on a recent trip we took together. Nino My wife told me that we would have the weekend to ourselves. The kids would be off to the sea with school, so let’s go somewhere to relax. Only a few weeks earlier Read more…
5 Apr
Interestingly enough, this place has been featured in a highly readable news feature on the embargo and Cuban economics on Al Jazeera, as I found out : He spoke while dining at Rejoneo Asador in the capital’s upscale Miramar neighborhood, an establishment that seems to illustrate his point. The restaurant, which serves mammoth portions Read more…
5 Apr
The days in Havana were filled with leisurely breakfast’s in the patio, a cigar and playing the day by ear. They spent half a day in Cojimar on Hemingway’s trail. Of course I took them to my favourite eating places like El Chanchullero, El Templete, Starbien for the best Masas de Cerdo ( which Read more…
5 Apr
Rainer & Marled are friends from my village in Germany. Rainer, a retired plumber smokes with us at the pharmacy and Marled takes cooking classes with my wife. Both have a passion to travel, a love that became fulfilled when they left East Germany right after the crumbling of the Berlin wall. Being surrounded Read more…
5 Apr
Here’s the view on official events from two members of the Portmann group, Horst and Christof. Both of them very professional photographers and always good for a laugh and any fun event. It is thanks to them that I have a good pictorial archive of the trip and all the official events that they Read more…
4 Apr
Here’s the view on things, events and excursions from two of the members of the Portmann group with us on our last trip. Both of them very professional photographers and always good for a laugh and any fun event. It is thanks to them that I have a good pictorial archive of the trip Read more…
