20 Mar
No trip to Havana is free of fake cigars. While walking around the city I took Frank to the place behind the Partagas factory where I was offered fake cigars last November. Caught unawares by our visit the selection wasn’t great, but we were promised much more stuff and many more boxes should we Read more…
28 Nov
Snacks and cigars with North-Koreans The delegates march off with their faked boxes Nov. 2011 One of the interesting features of my Hotel ( perhaps the only one ) was the mixed clientele it had. From Aeroflot crews to Haitian refugees, from Eastern Europeans to Quebecois, from German language students to foreign businessmen. So Read more…
31 May
May 2011 I had the opportunity to take pictures of some suspect boxes that a friend obtained from Cuba some years ago. We determined these boxes to be fake/counterfeited. The fact that they taste good is just a bonus. Nino Update : Incredibly ( or is it idiotically ) enough, a self-proclaimed US shake-n-bake Read more…
5 May
Beautiful … non-existing .. Cohiba EL 2005 May 2011 Sometimes looking at the forest keeps you from seeing the trees, as we say here. Which is what happened last Sunday to all of us while smoking the Cohiba EL 2005 that Gottfried offered us. Fresh from his cellar, out of boxes he received from Read more…
2 May
Cognac & Cohiba BHK Selection for the guys Sunny Sunday Andreas May 2011 A labour of love on Labour day – 1-st of May -, some seven hours of perfect bliss in the sun with our wives and some very tasty cigars before, during and after an excellent BBQ organized by Andreas. We had planned Read more…
