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Meeting The Great Roller Maritza Acuña Again
I have known Maritza now for 15 years and have met her frequently in Havana at the H.Upmann factory where she leads the 60 best Category 9 rollers of that factory. In fact she gave us in the Portmann group a class in rolling cigars at that factory back in 2007 … I have met Read more…
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Happy Days With Niki And The Taiwan Cigar Club In Europe – Day Four – Leuven With Frank
Niki had asked me what he and his friends should see and do in Brussels – I told him very honestly : Get out of there, Belgium has nicer cities than that … 🙂 So on the day before their departure back to Taiwan, after visiting Ghent and Bruges they took the train from Brussels Read more…
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Happy Days With Niki And The Taiwan Cigar Club In Germany – Day Three
Sunny Tuesday and we met for a morning cigar at my Cafe, long and very relaxed hour planning the day and smoking fine. I showed my village, the garden with fresh apples for all and the cigar cellar – my KISS system of storing cigars in metal lockers which keeps them perfect for long time Read more…
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Happy Days With Niki And The Taiwan Cigar Club in Europe – Day Two
I arrived early Monday morning in Frankfurt to find that Johnston had already picked up the rental car and driven it to their Hotel ! Good Start. A coffee and a small Partagas while the cars were loaded and we left Frankfurt at 11 am to Rüdesheim. Traffic was light but we had a traffic Read more…
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Niki And The Taiwan Cigar Club in Europe – Happy Days – Day One
The KISS principle – Keeping it simple I believe the best part of smoking cigars is to share the experience and pleasure with good friends, then it becomes a double Happiness. I had the fortune of meeting Niki, a fellow cigar smoker from Taiwan, a few years ago through the Internet Cigar Boards. We kept Read more…