Flying Cigar – A Cigar Travel Blog

  Back from a few weeks in Havana and the Vuelta Abajo where I met the Canadian friends there for the Partagas Encuentro and we had a cigar filled time. It was fun as always but also quite a busy time as I took friends there who had not been to Cuba before and showed Read more…

  Bags are packed, all is ready to go. Off to Havana early tomorrow for a few weeks of sun, cigars and friends. While there, I’ll meet the group of Canadian friends attending the Encuentro de Amigos de Partagas and we have planned some interesting events like a visit to the factories, to humidor artist Read more…

  Never thought I’d use a smartphone – much less that I’d be able to program it or be able to use it without getting a nervous break-down. But after watching experienced ( and addicted ) users like Andreas and other friends use them and swear on them for years, I decided last week that Read more…

  Here is a review of a 2008 Cueto Diadema from my stock that Alex of Don Alexandro Blog wrote today. Happy he enjoyed it, compliments to a great and very detailed review and looking forward to smoke it myself. Like all good shoemakers I give shoes away and run barefoot myself … gave a Read more…

In exactly four weeks we will land in Havana and start a few weeks of fun, friendship, meeting our Canuck cigar counterparts there, cigar related stuff like visits to the factories, the farmers and the countryside. So the four of us travelling met at the Nassauer Hof hotel bar in Wiesbaden in style to go Read more…

  The idea of a “joint” tasting came to me when I read a review of a Reynaldo custom rolled cigar from the Hostal Conde de Villanueva, the Elephant foot, truly a monster, in a fellow German blogger’s site, Don Alexandro. So I contacted Alex and suggested we meet at the pharmacy to do a Read more…

  We, Frank and I, were surprised to learn that it was not going to be the small, uncomplicated affair we expected, but a “Havana Portmann Group Reunion” dinner at a Michelin rated restaurant in St Gallen / Switzerland. Oh well, worse things can happen in life … Like the traffic jam we saw on Read more…