Flying Cigar – A Cigar Travel Blog

  Back from a few weeks in Havana and the Vuelta Abajo where I met the Canadian friends there for the Partagas Encuentro and we had a cigar filled time. It was fun as always but also quite a busy time as I took friends there who had not been to Cuba before and showed Read more…

  Bags are packed, all is ready to go. Off to Havana early tomorrow for a few weeks of sun, cigars and friends. While there, I’ll meet the group of Canadian friends attending the Encuentro de Amigos de Partagas and we have planned some interesting events like a visit to the factories, to humidor artist Read more…

In exactly four weeks we will land in Havana and start a few weeks of fun, friendship, meeting our Canuck cigar counterparts there, cigar related stuff like visits to the factories, the farmers and the countryside. So the four of us travelling met at the Nassauer Hof hotel bar in Wiesbaden in style to go Read more…

  We, Frank and I, were surprised to learn that it was not going to be the small, uncomplicated affair we expected, but a “Havana Portmann Group Reunion” dinner at a Michelin rated restaurant in St Gallen / Switzerland. Oh well, worse things can happen in life … Like the traffic jam we saw on Read more…

Yesterday on a German Autobahn on the ride back from our Portmann cigar week-end in Switzerland. Two identical black camouflaged monsters followed by a support car were test driving on a no speed limit stretch of black top. They passed us, we passed them ( driving an AMG Mercedes ), they passed us again and Read more…

The best for last – this is the last post on the Cuba trip. The best paladar, my opinion, in Havana right now. Osmany, the owner/cook spent some long years cooking at the French embassy and renovated a beautiful, airy and elegant house in Vedado as the home of Starbien. The food is great and Read more…

   A dinner thrown by Horst for Cuban friends at Paladar Doña Eutimia in Callejon del Chorro in Old Havana. We had the upstairs dining room all to ourselves and a very good dinner of Cuban cuisine that had some excellent appetizers like lobster and octopus in garlic. Attentive service and modestly priced. Our friend Read more…