Events & Festivals

While I suppose it will be like this all week, Wednesday started far too early for my tastes. At 7:15 a.m. I dragged myself out…

Tuesday began fairly early as we needed to have our luggage ready at 8:30 a.m. to head to Santiago; only, we were hours away from…

My first full day at this years Festival del Habano in Cuba started with me taking a (very) quick shower, getting dressed and taking a cab…

Live from the Dominican Republic, it’s Procigar 2019. For most people, Procigar—the Dominican Republic’s annual cigar festival—starts in Santiago, but for 150 or so of…

For the past four years, the month of February has meant not only Valentine’s Day, but also a return to the island of Cuba to…

While the second day of Tobacco Plus Expo 2019 might have been the second busiest day of the trade show, there is no question which…

I suspect that day two of the Tobacco Plus Expo will in fact be the best attended day of the trio. Historically, the show would…

For a few years,InterTabac, the European trade show, was my favorite trade show to attend because there simply wasn’t much to do. I could show…

It’s quite cold here in Dallas as I write this. Today is Friday, well, the day I am writing this is Friday. But if you…

First off, my apologies on the delay of this post. My intention was to produce daily blogs from the event, but as I tried to…

One of the nice parts of InterTabac is that most companies have the same booths—err stands—every year and for the most part, they are in…