Cuban Anecdotes : Customer service

5 Dec

Living on Cuban Time – Or : All we have is time. Went to change money at the Cadeca this morning. Waited my turn, went in, waited for the employee to finish her private conversation with a friend, handed in my money and ID, explained my first and last name to her, watched her check Read more…

Cuban Anecdotes – The perfect BS experience

5 Dec

Renzo and I laughed at the young German couple’s tales of their first day in Havana. They had been accosted by hustlers, plagued by Jineteros and finally fell in on a story by a young couple who pretended to know them from their casa particular in Neptuno, central Havana, and took them to a “guided” Read more…

The Making of A Jar

3 Dec

This jar has been really a long time in the “making” – and then twice .. My good friend and Partagas passionate Frank asked me already a year ago about having the replica Partagas jar ordered in Havana. Despite my best efforts it was impossible to do via mail and I couldn’t find Ramon to Read more…

Launching of the Cohiba Piramides Extra in Havana – Updated with pictures

3 Dec

I was invited to attend the official launching of the Cohiba Piramide into the Cuban market at the Club Habana LCDH. Leo and Jorgito were kind enough to provide me earlier with some boxes of the H.Upmann 520 and the RA EL’s that I enjoy, as well as enough Monsdales to last me a week Read more…

Of Fakes, Arrests, Fear and Survival

2 Dec

I arrived in Havana on the 26-th of October. The next day I met a German couple for Mojitos on the pool terrace of the Saratoga and laughed at their stories from their first day in Havana. They had arrived with me on the same flight and planned to tour Cuba the hard way, on Read more…

Cigars, Pigs, Rum, Beach, Lobsters – more Rum & more cigars. A Visit to Hector Luis Prieto and Cayo Jutias Beach – Updated with photographs.

1 Dec

Back in Havana from a trip to the Vuelta Abajo with Toby, Jose Antonio, Renzo and a group of US friends of Toby. Spent a glorious half day at Hector Luis’ Vega, smoking the very best Cuban tobacco expertly rolled on site by his Tabaquero Miguel and enjoying a first class long Cuban lunch of Read more…

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Smoking a cigar with an iconic Cuban Revolution Commander – Updated with photographs

1 Dec

Melia Cohiba, La Habana, 30.10.2012 Dinner Club de Amigos Dir.Gen. Hotel Melia Cohiba / Dir. HSA Sr Buenaventura Speaker : Dr Luis Sorinas 1x H.Upmann Connossieur Nr 1 ( Hermoso Nr 4 ) 1x Special custom rolled Habano – smoked it at a later date and it was magnificient ! Themes : 520 yrs discovery Read more…

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