Flying Cigar – A Cigar Travel Blog

  OK, so I gave my wife a nice flower bouquet this morning and a 4 course menu with Champagne and wines has been reserved for Saturday in celebration of another nice event. But this box is strictly a “men’s only” pleasure, I suppose. An extremely rare box of early diplomatic production Cohibas containing 48 Read more…

  Hong Kong, December 2012. Sitting in the morning breeze by the pool bar here in Shatin, smoking my morning cigar and looking forward to another glorious day of new and old experiences in this most dynamic and vibrating city, I reflect on my impressions since I arrived here, only a week ago, but an Read more…

  Nothing better to start the new Year with than champagne – right ? Well, plenty of it in my first post of 2013 … This picture gallery starts and ends with my former work horse, the B-747-400, that took me very comfortably to Hong Kong. As always, when enjoying the Business class on long Read more…

  Ha, so most of you would think that after 35 years of flying I would be used to jetlag, right ? Wrong – hits me in the face like all of you as well. Mostly in the middle of the night … Slept 3 hours from 02 to 05 am, woke up, no wonder Read more…

Only a few hrs of sleep, good breakfast, off to the Chinese consulate in Central to get my visa for Guangzhou, not possible there, off to Mongkok and China Travel services there, no problem, visa ready this afternoon. All set to leave for China next Monday. Until then it’s great Chinese food and vintage cigars Read more…

Hi all, arrived today late afternoon in HK, lovely weather, bit overcast but miiiild at 20 C. Had a very nice evening with friends, great abalone and chicken and many more good stuff dinner followed by Epicures Nr 2 from the 80’s from a Fox cabinet, excellent ’96 champagne and a very tannic and lovely ’96 Read more…

Tomorrow Friday I’ll be off to Havana for 4 weeks. While there, I’ll be meeting International friends gathering for the Encuentro de Amigos de Partagas 19 to 23 November. I look forward to meet up with Rob Ayala and his Australian mates again, with Art, Marc, Keith and other good Canadians, with Rob, Dara and Read more…