Flying Cigar – A Cigar Travel Blog

We met at my local Cafe for a long breakfast and good cigars before hitting the Autobahn for a fast & furious drive to Saarbrücken and a visit to good old and generous Salih at his LCDH there. Sunny, hot and nice half Saturday in Saarbrücken. So hot we only took a short walk around Read more…

Oh, the joys of being retired, having time and having a good roller nearby. Sr Eduardo Pulido from the Partagas factory in Havana is on a tour in Germany and was rolling Robustos today at Salih Dalay in Saabrücken. So another quick, fast and furious drive down towards France, this time at 190 km/h on Read more…

It was a continuation of Havana on a small scale. A more intimate scale but with almost as many cigars to smoke and interesting places to see as in Havana. I had met Keith just a short while ago in Havana and shared cigars, places and friends with him, and then he pops up flying Read more…

I have always enjoyed Salih Dalay’s you tube channel and his relaxed, unorthodox and highly interesting videos, so when he contacted me asking for an interview, I immediately agreed. But for this interview, being for his newly started Connoisseurs Corner, he wanted a special, rare vintage cigar, so not having cigars in that range himself Read more…

I received a series of most professional and impressive photographs taken by fellow cigar lover Viktor Enns during Sr Fidel Segui’s visit to Dalay Cigars in Saarbrücken. He also kindly took a portrait of Fidel with me of which I am proud. I believe that these photographs do justice to the art of rolling cigars Read more…

I had my first RA 898 ER Alemania a few days ago when I picked up a few boxes at Dalay Cigars LCDH Saarbrücken ( and helped some friends get their hands on them as well ). I loved it. From the get-go. Great flavours, construction, burn, progression, potential – all inside. And then, when Read more…

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…