10 Mar
Frank joined me for the last week in Havana and with the Festival just about to begin the city was filled with familiar faces of friends gathering to celebrate the 50-th Anniversary of Cohiba during the 18-th Festival del Habano. In fact so many people were attending this event that there was a waiting list Read more…
9 Mar
It’s not just the cigar enthusiasts flying in for the Festival and the 50-th Cohiba Anniversary that were in massive attendance this year – looks like everybody plus his grandmother and third cousins are invading Cuba and specially Havana these days fearing a sudden change that will take years or decades to come. I had Read more…
4 Feb
It was time again to meet up with Frank at the LCDH in Cologne and he invited Jan who invited Michel and I took Andreas along to make it a round-table affair. Of course each of us took cigars to share with the others – I knew Michel was having a good surprise in store Read more…
24 Jan
Always nice to have a LCDH in your neighbourhood, so I was happy to read that a new Casa was opening in Koblenz, about 45 minutes from my village. It is an old-established cigar and pipe store, Pipe House, founded in 1933 and kept in family tradition, now managed by Mr Jürgen Wilde and sons. Read more…
25 Dec
We sure had more than two fingers of good rum a day – specially at Cuba Pasion, the cigar lounge and paladar run by Emrah a block up from the Habana Libre hotel. He generously supplied us with some great rums for us to taste while smoking our cigars in the lovely and breezy terrace Read more…
20 Dec
Last month in Havana, Andreas Stachl from Casa La Corona in Rapperswil and Uster was kind enough to invite me to a tasting event he organized at the La Guarida terrace. We had met both at Hector Luis, the beach and about town and it was a very kind invitation that I gladly accepted, the Read more…
17 Dec
It was pleasure to share time and fun with my Canadian friends Keith and John and more so to meet their lovely partners for the first time. We had a cigar breakfast over at my Casa as well as the customary visit to the Lung Kong society for the elderly where we could see the Read more…
