Flying Cigar – A Cigar Travel Blog

Some impressions of my trip to the island. It was a relaxing trip – nice and almost boringly quiet. While it was great to be back again, drawbacks are starting to appear due to increased tourism, exploding prices and the low euro exchange rate. More detailed posts will follow on activities, visits, cigar tastings and Read more…

It was good to get out of Havana, the heat, the humidity, the masses and the putrid smell of a pony-tailed cigarette chain-smoking fuked-up Obra Completa faked-up “expert” box code YYZ HDP ( now that is for educated cigar smokers to decipher … 😉 The wind was rushing and I was chatting – so I Read more…

  Again the morning was filled with silence and the only sounds were the natural sounds of a farm. After breakfast that included the very rich and tasty Mamey, life started, staff came slowly into view and the daily routine began around mid-day. Miguel would start rolling, the bar would be prepared and visitors would Read more…

Quiet overcast and humid Sunday on the farm, so I decided to take a tour with Osmany, one of Hector’s staff and father of the young lady tendering the bar, a very friendly man as all of Hector’s staff and most guajiros I know are. We left with no hurry and drove to nearby San Read more…

A good night’s sleep and up with the roosters wake-up call, that’s how I started day two. The farm was quiet in the early morning, only the roosters, chicken and other animals could be heard as I sat having a cafecito before breakfast. Really idyllic and just as I had imagined it to be. It Read more…

Although I was in regular contact with Hector Luis and knew about his horse riding accident where he broke a leg, I hadn’t considered it too grave to be overly worried. It was not until I had the chance to meet him briefly in Havana after he had been to the Frank Pais hospital there Read more…

Part One What started as the “European Cigar Tour” in early April travelling to Leipzig, Lommel, Amsterdam and Antwerp with my buddy Frank, became an Asian cigar tour as we travelled to Hong Kong for a full week to visit my ( and now our ) friend Min Ron Nee. Having taken Frank along a Read more…