Flying Cigar – A Cigar Travel Blog

It’s that time of the year again – Festival time, serious cigar time with friends and buddies from all over the world. It will be stress, but positive and rewarding stress being among a good group of friends. Once again I have planned a few interesting events for the Portmann group there and I look Read more…

  The shock came the day before the joy of picking up the Ramon Allones Perfectos humidor – the Swiss Franc had become 20% more expensive. Which means also a shock to my friend Urs and his cigar business. From 1,65 CHF when shopping in Switzerland was still attractive to 1,20 CHF when it became Read more…

  Here’s the view on official events from two members of the Portmann group, Horst and Christof. Both of them very professional photographers and always good for a laugh and any fun event. It is thanks to them that I have a good pictorial archive of the trip and all the official events that they Read more…

  Here’s the view on things, events and excursions from two of the members of the Portmann group with us on our last trip. Both of them very professional photographers and always good for a laugh and any fun event. It is thanks to them that I have a good pictorial archive of the trip Read more…

  This time around I visited my friend and humidor artist Jose Ernesto Aguilera at his Humidores Habana workshop twice. Once with the Portmann group on Monday 24-th, the day the XVI Festival del Habano officially was inaugurated and again with my buddy Frank, who missed the first visit, on Wednesday 26-th February. I have Read more…

  Here is a selection of special humidors I found in different Casas del Habano in Havana before the start of the XVI Festival del Habano festivities. Following last year’s releases of special humidors celebrating musicians Chucho Valdes and Compay Segundo, this year the humidors celebrated Alicia Alonso, founder and director of the Cuban National Read more…

  I wouldn’t go as far as to comment that it was a great and expensive opportunity to feel important and shake hands with all the important players while supporting Cubans with a good dinner … but the comment comes to my mind. Great photo op too. From the drive into El Morro in an Read more…