Flying Cigar – A Cigar Travel Blog

  My Cuban routine is to spend time with my friends there, as much as possible. The rollers, the tabaqueros, the tobacco planters, the shopkeepers and the humidor artists. So it was a pleasure to meet up with Jose Ernesto Aguilera, his assistant Alex and his team again and see the work in progress as Read more…

  Talk about Lady Luck – it had been a cool, rainy and terribly windy day in Havana but the Partagas Welcome Night held in the open at the historic Plaza de Armas caught the exact dry time frame for the two and a half hours the show and dinner lasted. I had booked it Read more…

  A visit to the Lung Kong society in Havana to add assistance to this charity taking care of elderly Cuban-Chinese which has by now become my Cuban-Chinese help project. We are by now familiar and welcome faces at Lung Kong, especially with Tom dropping in during his frequent Cuba trips. My Canadian friends had Read more…

  Reflecting on these memorable two-and-a-half weeks in Havana, which passed too quick as always when you have fun and good company, I am very happy to state that these were the best days and absolutely the best trip I’ve had so far in my ten years of travelling to Cuba since I started “doing Read more…

  My bags are packed and already at the airport. It’s off to Cuba again tomorrow afternoon for a few weeks to meet old and new friends, share some time with my Canadian friends, re-visit Lung Kong society in Chinatown, enjoy high-sea fishing with Yannick and Keith and have a relaxed cigar smoking time on Read more…

  My blog is about sharing. Sharing the fun of cigars, the experiences with friends, the information on cigar related subjects. So when my good friend Keith from Canada asked me about the topic of freezing cigars by Habanos SA in Havana, I gladly provided some information and pictures of it that I had from Read more…

I received this report and attached pictures from a good friend (and lucky gentleman) who attended the memorial.  Enrique Mons Difurniau 1942-2014 A memorial service was held on Friday, 1 August, 2014 at the La Casa Del Habano, Club Habana, organized by its current manager Leo Parez Hernandez. This date is special as it was Read more…