14 Dec
I really, truly enjoyed meeting my Canadian buddies again, good to see Buddha, long time no see the big man, missed mon red-haired frere Simon, greeted new good guys Khal and Peter, great to have my lil’ blond brother John at the camera controls again, wish I had spent more time with Brother Bear’s Read more…
11 Dec
My Cuban routine is to spend time with my friends there, as much as possible. The rollers, the tabaqueros, the tobacco planters, the shopkeepers and the humidor artists. So it was a pleasure to meet up with Jose Ernesto Aguilera, his assistant Alex and his team again and see the work in progress as Read more…
10 Dec
Talk about Lady Luck – it had been a cool, rainy and terribly windy day in Havana but the Partagas Welcome Night held in the open at the historic Plaza de Armas caught the exact dry time frame for the two and a half hours the show and dinner lasted. I had booked it Read more…
8 Dec
I had enough fun with Reza in Dublin at the AmiCigar meeting there to last me for a while. I thought. We shared some great cigars but the main memory is the fun we had. He is truly a crazy, warm-hearted guy. Well, mostly. How crazy can you be to drive over from Antwerp, Read more…
7 Dec
A visit to the Lung Kong society in Havana to add assistance to this charity taking care of elderly Cuban-Chinese which has by now become my Cuban-Chinese help project. We are by now familiar and welcome faces at Lung Kong, especially with Tom dropping in during his frequent Cuba trips. My Canadian friends had Read more…
6 Dec
What a day of thunder !! We happened to arrive at El Laguito early to have a cafecito with Jose, the director, when we became part of the excitement of having 20 Harley Davidson enthusiasts and cigar smokers from Switzerland driving into El Laguito and giving the rollers and staff a joyride on their Read more…
