Flying Cigar – A Cigar Travel Blog

It was time again to meet up with Frank at the LCDH in Cologne and he invited Jan who invited Michel and I took Andreas along to make it a round-table affair. Of course each of us took cigars to share with the others – I knew Michel was having a good surprise in store Read more…

Here is a very well written review of the newly released Partagas Maduro No 1 with excellent pictures courtesy of my friend Michel van Wingerden – Thanks ! ——— My friend Carlito De asked me to review the Partagas Maduro No.1 and the RyJ Cedros de Luxe before their official launch in The Benelux. Of Read more…

A week after having the Dutch and the Belgians here at the pharmacy I was on the road again to Belgium on a cigar mission. It was 800 km in 3 days and I decided to take it easy by driving on Friday to Tielt and stay over night there at Silentium B&B. The driving Read more…

Almost exactly a week after landing from Havana I was back on the road in a cigar mission … Frank had invited a few close friends to a cigar BBQ party at his house in Tielt near Leuven. The day he had chosen turned out to be the hottest day in weather-recorded history, temperatures hitting Read more…

Now that these boxes are safely in the hands of MRN for the preservation of cigar history, here is the “back story” of their acquisition. Two ultra rare boxes of Cohiba Lanceros presented by the Cuban government to foreign personalities in the 1970’s surfaced earlier this year. Before leaving for Cuba in February, literally hours Read more…

Review and pictures courtesy of my friend Michel v. W. Recently in Amsterdam a surprise cigar was handed to me with the request to smoke it and to provide my opinion : a 1984 Cohiba Lancero Diplomatico. Courtesy of Min Ron Nee via my very dear friend Nino Muñoz – a big thank you to Read more…

  The mild & sunny weather doesn’t give you a hint, but winter approaches and with it also some German culinary traditions like eating goose on Martin’s day. Josef, our resident Dutch cook, planned a goose dinner at the Domtal Golf course in Mommenheim for us, kindly paying special attention that I was able to Read more…