{"id":21022,"date":"2017-10-04T12:22:23","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T10:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flyingcigar.de\/?p=21022"},"modified":"2017-10-18T13:34:42","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T11:34:42","slug":"christians-great-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flyingcigar.de\/startseite\/christians-great-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian’s Great Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It was the end of the Hermantour, the year long celebration of Christian’s 50th birthday and he had invited the same large group of friends to have a fantastic weekend full of friendship, excellent food and good spirit.<\/p>\n

I left on Friday morning, smooth driving all the way into the Netherlands for a few cigars and lunch with Jan and Lili.<\/p>\n

Continuing into the sunny and hot afternoon the driving became more slow until it was standstill all around Antwerp – terrible traffic jams as always.<\/p>\n

But I managed to arrive in time at Christian’s for a cold beer and a nice cigar with him and Jorg.<\/p>\n

After taking my small, quiet beautiful old house in Aardenburg across the Belgian border in the Netherlands and a quick shower it was off to a spectacular dinner and cigars at De Kromme Watergang.<\/a><\/p>\n

We had a bottle of 1996 Comtes des Taittinger with 2003 Cohiba Reserva at the restaurant’s cigar lounge and were joined by Edwin Vinke the owner of this magnificent 2 star Michelin gourmet temple<\/a>, also a passionate cigar smoker.<\/p>\n

The dinner was beyond extraordinary, it was a culinary delight with the menu being exclusively seafood – the freshest coquilles, oysters in champagne sauce ( so delicious we had them again for dessert ) delicate Turbot and many other delicacies that had the saltiness and freshness of the sea. All washed down with some stellar white Bourgogne.<\/p>\n

We finished the evening back at the cigar lounge with another bottle of Bourgogne and more delicious oysters as dessert.<\/p>\n

Next morning it was off to Knokke – the Dubai or Beverly Hills of Belgium I was told by my guide Christian – for breakfast and a walk through the city and the sea promenade visiting the LCDH Knokke as well as the Casa del Tabaco. Incredible town – I saw more luxury cars in 2 hours that I see in Germany in 2 months – and saw NC sticks at between 42 \u20ac and 82 \u20ac a stick ….. now that’s how the “other half” lives.<\/p>\n

It was back to Christian’s home and the start of the meeting of friends, a great evening of more culinary delights by the Blend Brothers<\/a> and a passionate speech by Christian to celebrate the birthday year and a sensational party.<\/p>\n

Great fun with Dominique and Frederic, Frank, Jorg, Johan and all other friends. A special thank you to Johan<\/strong> for taking care of my torn shoulder !<\/p>\n

It was a very memorable night and Christian was able to collect over 10.000 \u20ac for the children’s support charity. Well done !!<\/p>\n

Next morning after packing up it was lunch in Sluis with Christian and friends before making my way back home.<\/p>\n

A very special and spectacular weekend – thank you Christian<\/strong> !!<\/p>\n

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

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