Flying Cigar – A Cigar Travel Blog

  I met the genial John DeCosta last year at a small and intimate dinner in Havana at La Guarida with Stephan von Schilling, Simon Chase and other good friends. Very interesting background and lifestyle, quite fascinated listening to him and so I was very happy and honoured to recently receive his invitation to the Read more…

  Now, talk about a real hole in the wall. Compared to El Chanchullero, the first hole in the wall in old Havana, Santy’s is truly adventurous to find. Unless you know where it is located and where to ring the bell, you will be lost in a suburb that changes from private, lush and Read more…

  Basically, as explained below in the text to the first visit, a chance to see the progress of the work in the 2 days in between the visits of the Portmann group and Frank. I have added 3 pictures of the finished Montecristo humidor being shown ( and auctioned ) at the Gala dinner Read more…

  This time around I visited my friend and humidor artist Jose Ernesto Aguilera at his Humidores Habana workshop twice. Once with the Portmann group on Monday 24-th, the day the XVI Festival del Habano officially was inaugurated and again with my buddy Frank, who missed the first visit, on Wednesday 26-th February. I have Read more…

  A few things I didn’t know beforehand : First – My buddy Frank was supposed to be the Master of Cigar Ceremony at this tasting of a Partagas Lusitania Gran Reserva and relay a few comments to this gathering of friends from the Portmann Cigar group of which he was a part. Well, he Read more…

  The relationship between this place or rather nameless hole in the wall and me was love at first sight. Maybe it was the blonde Italian B-767 flight attendant at the bar that attracted me first, but soon enough she was into the black bartender and I was into the mood of the place while Read more…

  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…