{"id":12022,"date":"2015-07-10T10:25:47","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T08:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flyingcigar.de\/?p=12022"},"modified":"2015-07-10T13:59:11","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T11:59:11","slug":"days-at-the-farm-with-hector-luis-prieto-day-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flyingcigar.de\/startseite\/days-at-the-farm-with-hector-luis-prieto-day-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Days At The Farm With Hector Luis Prieto – Day Two"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"nfc<\/a><\/p>\n

A good night’s sleep and up with the roosters wake-up call, that’s how I started day two.<\/p>\n

The farm was quiet in the early morning, only the roosters, chicken and other animals could be heard as I sat having a cafecito before breakfast. Really idyllic and just as I had imagined it to be.<\/p>\n

It was a long breakfast, then a long cigar time with Hector and Miguel and conversations on proper cigar weights and other cigar issues.<\/p>\n

Quiet Sunday on the farm, so I decided to take a tour with Osmany, one of Hector’s staff and father of the young lady tendering the bar, a very friendly man as all of Hector’s staff and most guajiros I know are.<\/p>\n

We left with no hurry and drove to nearby San Juan y Martinez to fill up the car. Only 4-5 klicks from Hector’s farm and at the entrance to sleepy San Juan is … Hoyo de Monterrey. So many times I had looked for this famed estate plantation and I had been so close all these years … as the Cuban saying goes : el mundo es un pa\u00f1uelo y Cuba es un boton.<\/p>\n

I had to see Hoyo de Monterrey and take some pictures despite the drizzle. What a sight ! The famed sign and driveway – only to have some soviet style blocks disfigure the view.<\/p>\n

Then we drove on to Pinar del Rio, a city I’ve passed so many times by car but never had the chance to walk about and see properly.<\/p>\n

Osmany took me to the Guayabita factory or rather : small distillery where I tried this local liquor with the characteristic guayabita stone inside. It comes either sweet or dry and I took to the dry one – although after sharing half a (powerful) bottle at the farm with the guys and dancing away to the music <\/a>I returned to my more liked and customary rum…<\/p>\n

In Pinar we had a beer and a cigar and then I was left alone to walk the city for a few hours. I always wanted to check out the Vuelta Abajo hotel and I am glad I did, what a lovely building and great terrace for a drink and a rest.<\/p>\n

I walked up and down the streets in the oppressive humidity and even went inside the Casa del Habano just to cool down a bit.<\/p>\n

There was hardly anything worth looking at cigar-wise at the LCDH. If not even Havana is being supplied what did I expect to find in Pinar ?<\/p>\n

Pictures of my San Juan, HdM and Pinar del Rio tour will be shown in a separate post.<\/p>\n

We returned to the farm and I had lunch followed by a shirtless afternoon ” a la cubana”. A few cold Cristals, a bottle of Guayabita and shirts off to shoot the crap on a sleepy Sunday afternoon. Music came up, one of the ladies started dancing by herself and I had to join, the music “remote-controlling” my knees and moving my feet.<\/p>\n

Good fun !<\/p>\n

A few cold Cristals to cool down, a cigar, then a shower and after a walk around the estate a conversation with Hector.<\/p>\n

I was lucky I had Hector’s son’s novia or girl-friend take a series of good pictures of myself relaxing with a cigar before I returned the favour taking some nice shots of her and the family – sweet faces and great, very educated, interested, shy and well-behaved kids all of them.<\/p>\n

It was a light dinner before getting into a long session of cigar smoking and discussing world affairs with Hector Luis and his lovely wife on the farm’s veranda.<\/p>\n

He was smoking one of my custom rolled Salomones that he had taken a liking to and I shot a series of pictures that I am quite proud of and that he liked a lot – his profile and the ring of fire from the cigar being inhaled\u00a0clearly seen. I passed all pictures next day before leaving\u00a0for him to use.<\/p>\n

What a lovely day and evening it had been. Company, conversation, fun, thoughtfulness, friendship, silence, good cigars and the stars above.<\/p>\n

What more can you ask for ?<\/p>\n

Gracias de nuevo hermano !<\/p>\n

Nino<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\n \n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t