Flying Cigar – A Cigar Travel Blog

  After all the Festival events in the mad week, most participants left Havana and it was quiet again. Horst stayed on for a few days and we took a tour to Cojimar and the Hemingway memorial there in a private vintage taxi, having a beer at the touristy La Terraza restaurant and then continuing Read more…

  The weather wasn’t on our side this time around. Other than that it was as fun as always and a good and relaxing way to meet all the people from the cigar industry that rarely get to enjoy the big events of the Festival. The rollers, their families, their friends. As usual, if I Read more…

  A fitting post this Easter week-end. Every time I passed this immense cemetery during my earlier Havana trips I was intrigued and wanted to spend a few hours visiting it. It always looked to me more attractive, open-aired and less narrow and claustrophobic than the Recoleta cemetery in Buenos Aires that I have visited Read more…

  Cuba – So you think everything Frank and I did there was highly  and seriously educational, right ? Extremely serious stuff  and seriously well prepared, right ? I mean, hey, we were there on the Festival run, behaving accordingly, right ? Wrong – We never stopped laughing, having fun, doing our thing, changing plans Read more…

  During a conversation with Mr Portmann last year I had suggested, upon his enquiry, a visit and lunch at one of the most spectacularly beautiful tobacco plantations I have seen in the Vuelta Abajo. Having arranged the visit to Hector Luis’ farm last November I looked forward to this visit and in conclusion, although Read more…

  As every year, the Portmann group wanted to drop by Vegas Robaina, the farm and say hello to Hirochi, now in charge of the most famous wrapper vega. For me it was an opportunity to go back in time, remember my first visits there without all the hoopla and get to greet an old Read more…

  Not to be missed – it hung in the air to the almost very last moment but it happened after all, the biography of Partagas, The Book, was presented at the XV FdH during a “cocktail” reception at Partagas. We few met in the cigar lounge inside the shop. Guess the timing of its Read more…