31 Mar
Even the shittiest of days deserves a good cigar, if only to feel better. Andreas’s been having some shitty days and I wasn’t feeling too well myself on Saturday evening when we met in the office for a couple of hours of the basic feel-good ingredients: some beer, a bottle of Claret, a bottle Read more…
31 Mar
After so many great eating places, it’s about time to present the only dud hole this trip : Bistro Habana Kohly or BHK. Punch Joe wanted me to check this place out and arranged for an ad hoc lunch with good friends. The place is specially recommended for meat on a hot stone, Read more…
30 Mar
First time ever I stepped into this tunnel of foregone time, this Mafia monument, this beautifully preserved 50’s gem of architecture. Funny, so many times I’ve driven past, so many times I’ve been next door at the ugly Melia Cohiba for events, LCDH, the Internet, etc, but never had I been to the Riviera Read more…
29 Mar
A short tribute to Frank who managed to fly to Havana despite losing half of his planned week due to a strike in Frankfurt. So his “vacation” shrank dramatically to a “city trip” – but still he enjoyed the trip, the fun and the cigars. We managed to get all the items on his Read more…
28 Mar
Where else can you sit by the Malecon and enjoy great food and service with the added bonus that you will be disconnected in the true sense of the word ? Your mobile will not work here, right in the centre of Havana, as the place is located in a nice old house that Read more…
27 Mar
Not much to report here. Some memorable family dinners with our Cuban friends in the privacy of their home, enjoying good home made food, rum, cigars, friendship and laughter. To Frank and me much better affairs than all the circus. To my friends R & M a good start into their Cuban vacation. They Read more…
26 Mar
A truly cigar and fun packed day, yesterday. And no, there’s no “hidden closet” in this post – just good old dirty fun … Drove up to Cologne for half a day of smoking fine cigars with my old Belgian buddy-“lover” Frank at Pitter Heinrich’s Casa. We started with 70/80’s vintage Cuban Davidoffs, Chateau Read more…
