29 Sep
I have known Maritza now for 15 years and have met her frequently in Havana at the H.Upmann factory where she leads the 60 best Category 9 rollers of that factory. In fact she gave us in the Portmann group a class in rolling cigars at that factory back in 2007 … I have met Read more…
7 Oct
OK, so these boxes were over a year late in arriving. With the corresponding big hype. And big expectations too. And when they finally hit Germany, the first batch of 500 boxes was distributed in small doses. They basically “evaporated” like rain in the desert … I was told by a merchant that his 50 Read more…
11 Apr
Nothing like blue skies and warm temperatures to travel around Europe and enjoy the best the old Continent has to offer. Early April, during Easter, I decided to travel up to eastern Germany and visit some family residing near Dresden. Nothing better to do on a quiet Easter Saturday than visit Leipzig which has undergone Read more…
15 Mar
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…
5 Feb
What an incredible mild Winter we are having – even the higher altitudes forests are devoid of snow as we sped through the Hunsrück region aka German Siberia and it was still 3 C. Speeding is right, as we did the 200 km ride in hardly 90 minutes and even faster on return. Having Andreas Read more…
10 Apr
Happy I held back on the booze the night before as the driving up to Cologne was as shitty, lousy and nerve-wrecking as it gets on a windy Tuesday afternoon with highway construction, torrential showers and trucks all over the road. The first hour was a nightmare, driving blind basically in the downpour. Just Read more…
4 Jul
Enjoy mine while I enjoy yours … July 2012 Fresh back from Switzerland it was back on the Autobahn for the ride to Cologne and half a day of pleasant tranquillity with my friend Frank who had the same ride but from a western heading. We met 3 pm at LCDH and were joined Read more…
